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Muller
Muller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A–H *Alexandre Muller (born 1997), French tennis player * A. Charles Muller (born 1953), translator * Bauke Muller (born 1962), Dutch bridge player * Bennie Muller (1938–2024), Dutch footballer * Bill Muller (1965–2007), US journalist *Bobby Muller (born 1946), Vietnam veteran * Carl Muller (1935–2019), Sri Lankan Burgher writer, poet, and journalist * Christiaan Alexander Muller (1923–2004), Dutch radio astronomer * David E. Muller (1924–2008), American mathematician and computer scientist *Derek Muller (born 1982), science communicator * Dominique Muller (born 1949), French writer * Édouard Muller (painter) (1823–1876), Swiss-French painter * Édouard Muller (cyclist) (1919–1997), French road racing cyclist *Ellen Preis (Ellen Müller-Preis) (1912–2007), German-born Austrian fencer * Émile Muller (1915–1988), French politician * Filinto Muller (1900–1973), Brazilian politician *Franck Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller
Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller (2 April 1859 – 11 August 1941) was a Dutch entrepreneur, diplomat and publicist. He started his career as a businessman, trading with East and West Africa. In his mid-twenties he travelled to Zanzibar, Mozambique, and South Africa for business purposes, but showed himself a keen ethnographer as well. In 1896, he was first appointed consul and later consul general for the Orange Free State. Muller held this position all through the Second Boer War and his high-profile performance as European representative for this Boer republic won him considerable notoriety. After the Treaty of Vereeniging was signed in 1902, Muller retired to a life of travelling and writing for some years, making Muller a household name with his travel books. In 1919, the Dutch government appointed him envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Romania, and later to Czechoslovakia. Muller was a prolific writer. Over the course of his life he published well over two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Joseph Muller
Hermann Joseph Muller (December 21, 1890 – April 5, 1967) was an American geneticist who was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, "for the discovery that mutations can be induced by X-rays". Muller warned of long-term dangers of radioactive fallout from nuclear war and nuclear testing, which resulted in greater public scrutiny of these practices. Early life Muller was born in New York City, the son of Frances (Lyons) and Hermann Joseph Muller Sr., an artisan who worked with metals. Muller was a third-generation American whose father's ancestors were originally Catholic and came to the United States from Koblenz. His mother's family was of mixed Jewish (descended from Spanish and Portuguese Jews) and Anglican background, and had come from Britain. Among his first cousins was Alfred Kroeber (Kroeber was Ursula Le Guin's father) and first cousins once removed was Herbert J. Muller. As an adolescent, Muller attended a Unitarian church and considered himsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Muller
Derek Alexander Muller (born 9 November 1982) is a science communicator and media personality, best known for his YouTube channel Veritasium, which has over 17.8 million subscribers and 3.3 billion views as of April 2025. He currently lives in Los Angeles. Early life and education Muller was born to South African parents in Traralgon, Victoria, Australia. His family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, when he was 18 months old. In 2000, Muller graduated from West Vancouver Secondary School. In 2004, Muller graduated from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics. Muller moved to Australia to study film-making; however, he instead enrolled for a Ph.D. in physics education research from the University of Sydney, which he completed in 2008 with a thesis: ''Designing Effective Multimedia for Physics Education''. Career Muller has been listed as a team member of the ABC television program ''Catalyst'' since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bennie Muller
Bennie Muller (14 August 1938 – 17 January 2024) was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Ajax and the Netherlands national team. Early life Muller was born in the Jewish Quarter of Amsterdam-East. His grandfather was a fruit seller named Levi Sluiter. His mother was incarcerated in Westerbork transit camp during World War II. Approximately 200 members of Muller's extended family were killed in the Holocaust. Club career Muller played club football for Ajax beginning in 1958, and was its captain. He made his debut for Ajax against MVV and played 426 official matches for the club. He won five league titles and three domestic cups with them. International career Muller made his debut for the Netherlands national team in an April 1960 friendly match against Bulgaria, earning 43 caps in total, and also serving as captain. His final international was an October 1968 World Cup qualification match against Bulgaria. Personal life Muller was Jewish, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franck Muller
Franck Muller is a Switzerland, Swiss luxury watch manufacturer named after its founder. The company's estimated total sales (in 2010/2011) were 20000 pkr in watches with an average unit price of 679000 pkr Franck Muller's watches are worn by various peoples, among them Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elton John, Cristiano Ronaldo, David Beckham, Kanye West, Conor McGregor, Floyd Mayweather, Paris Hilton, and Chris Brown. Biography The founder and former CEO of the brand, Franck Muller, was born in 1958. He spent his childhood in La Chaux-de-Fonds with his Italian mother and Swiss-born father. At 15, he enrolled in a watchmaking school. In the early 1980s, he graduated from the Watchmaking School of Geneva (). Afterwards, he began repairing top-quality pocket watches. Close to an independent watchmaker by the name of Svend Andersen, Franck Muller became responsible for handling watches from the collection of Patek Philippe. Most of the clientele were private individuals and museums. Whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Muller
Frank Muller (May 5, 1951 – June 4, 2008) was a stage and television actor, but was most famous as an audiobook narrator. Early life Muller was born in the Netherlands, the eldest of five children. His family immigrated to the United States when he was five. Career Muller was a classically trained actor who began his career working on stage and doing commercials. He spent many years on the New York stage, where he became a company member of the Riverside Shakespeare Company, for which he played the title role in '' King Henry V'', Edmund the Bastard in '' The History of King Lear'', and the title role in '' Cyrano de Bergerac'', as well as performing with the Roundabout Theater Company and the New York Shakespeare Festival among others. He also played supporting roles on television in shows like ''Law & Order'', '' Life Goes On'', ''Harry and the Hendersons'', and ''All My Children''. It is as an audiobook narrator, however, that he was most famous. In 1979, Henry T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Muller
Bobby Muller (born 1946) is an American peace advocate. He was born on Long Island, and grew up in Great Neck, New York. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1967, during the Vietnam War. His commission with the Marines began the same day he received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Hofstra University in 1968, and by September of that year he was a combat lieutenant leading a marine infantry platoon. In April 1969, while leading an assault in Vietnam, a bullet entered his chest and severed his spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. After returning from Vietnam, Muller became a staunch advocate for veterans' rights and a peace activist. In 1974, he earned his J.D. degree from the Hofstra University School of Law. In the same year, he appeared in the anti-war documentary film '' Hearts and Minds'', speaking about his life before, during, and after the Vietnam War. He founded Vietnam Veterans of America in 1978 and Vietnam Veterans of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Muller
Kala Keerthi Carl Muller (22 October 1935 – 2 December 2019) was an award-winning Sri Lankan writer, poet and journalist best known for his trilogy about Burghers in Sri Lanka: ''The Jam Fruit Tree'', ''Yakada Yaka'' and ''Once Upon A Tender Time''. He won Gratiaen Awards for ''The Jam Fruit Tree'' in 1993Profile of Carl Muller at The Galle Literary Festival Website and a State Literary Award for his historical novel, ''Children of the Lion''. He was the first Sri Lankan author to publish a book internationally. He was reported to have died on 2 December 2019 which was confirmed by his son Jeremy Muller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christiaan Alexander Muller
Christiaan Alexander "Lex" Muller (Alkmaar, the Netherlands, 18 April 1923 — Delden, The Netherlands, 8 August 2004) was a Dutch radio engineer, radio astronomer and professor at Leiden University and the University of Twente. As the chief engineer he pioneered Dutch radio astronomy with the radio telescopes of Kootwijk, Dwingeloo (Dwingeloo Radio Observatory), and Westerbork (Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope), where he designed the receiver system. Because of his work with Dutch astronomer Jan Oort on the determination of the spiral structure of the Milky Way using the 21 cm hydrogen radio line emission observed with the Kootwijk telescope, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956, 1957, 1958, and 1961 by Swedish astronomer Bertil Lindblad and Karl Ingve Öhman. Muller was a professor with the Astronomy department at Leiden University from 1959 to 1972 in the field of ''Microwave technology and its application in astronomy, physics and chemistry'' (Dutch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frans Muller
Frans W. H. Muller (born 1961) is a Dutch businessman, and the CEO of Ahold Delhaize, since July 2018, having been deputy CEO. Education Muller earned a master's degree in business economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Career Muller started his career with KLM Cargo, from 1988 to 1997. He worked for Makro Cash & Carry from 1998 to 2002. He worked for Metro AG from 2002 to 2013, rising to become a Member of the Management Board of Metro Group AG and CEO Metro Cash & Carry. In 2013, Muller joined Delhaize as president and CEO. Muller was CEO of Delhaize until Ahold bought the company for Euro 9.3 billion in 2015, when he became deputy CEO of the combined company. Muller succeeded Dick Boer Dick Boer (born 31 August 1957) is a Dutch businessman. From 2011 to 2018, he was the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the supermarket chain Ahold Delhaize. Early life Boer was born on 31 August 1957. Career Boer joined Ahold in ... when he retired as CEO of Ahold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Muller
William S. Muller (1964–2007) was an American journalist and film critic, primarily for ''The Arizona Republic'' newspaper. He switched positions from reporter to film critic in 2000. Background and career path Bill Muller was born in New Jersey, grew up in Florida and Texas, and received a degree in political science from the University of Texas at Arlington. He began his journalism career at the '' Dallas Times Herald'' as a crime reporter. Then, he worked at the '' News and Observer'' in Raleigh, North Carolina, for two years. In 1994, he joined ''The Arizona Republic'', where he was an investigative reporter, and, starting in 2000, a film critic.“Arizona Republic film critic Bill Muller dies” Associated Press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Muller
Dominique Muller in 2010 Dominique Muller, real name Dominique Muller-Wakhevitch, (9 August 1949, Strasbourg) is a French journalist and novelist, author of several historical mysteries. Biography For several years Dominique Muller was a literary director at the . She took part to the ' radiko program on France Culture. In 1993 she won the Prix Roger Nimier for ''C'était le paradis'' and the Prix du jury Jean-Giono For her autobiographical narration ''Les Caresses et les Baisers'' (1998). ''Les Malgré-nous'' (2003), which recounts the first Nazi raids in Alsace during the Second World War, obtained a great public success. In "Désormais Venise" (2005), Dominique Muller evokes her passionate love affairs with Maurice Rheims. In 1999, she launched into the historical detective novel genre with a series whose hero is the doctor Florent Bonnevy, nicknamed Sauve-du-Mal, whose investigations take place under the Régence of Philippe, duc d'Orléans. A rationalist and followe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
