Achim Mueller
| Achim Müller | |
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14 February 1938 Detmold, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
| Known for | Tailor-made porous nanoclusters and their use as versatile materials |
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| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Bielefeld |
Achim Müller (born 14 February 1938 in Detmold, Germany) is a German scientist. He is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bielefeld.
Achim Müller studied chemistry and physics at the University of Göttingen and received there his PhD degree (1965) and the Habilitation (1967). In 1971, he became professor at the University of Dortmund and in 1977 professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bielefeld. In 2006 he got the Manchot-Forschungsprofessur of the Technische Universität München. He received but subsequently declined an invitation to succeed Professor F. Seel at Saarbrücken in 1982. His research involves mainly the chemistry of transition metals, especially with relation to nanochemistry, furthermore bioinorganic chemistry including biological nitrogen fixation, molecular magnets (even one showing quantum oscillations), molecular physics (including theoretical studies of isotope-substitution changes on molecular constants and experimental investigations based on various sophisticated vibrational spectroscopic techniques, e.g. matrix isolation) as well as history and philosophy of science. He has published about 900 original papers in more than 100 different journals related to different fields, more than 40 reviews and is coeditor of 16 books (see External links below). Achim Müller is a member of several national, e.g. the Leopoldina and international academies, e.g. Polish Academy of Sciences, The Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Exact Physical and Natural Sciences (Argentina), Academia Europaea and has received many awards (honorary doctor degrees, e.g. of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris; -professorships and -memberships; see External links) and prizes (e.g. 2000, Prix Gay-Lussac/Humboldt 2001, Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize 2001, Centenary Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2008/9, London), and several prominent/named lectureships in different countries [England, France, Romania, Spain, Sweden ("Berzelius Days")]. In 2012 he was awarded with the prestigious Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) (for more honors see External links). From Nature Chemistry he got an invitation to write an article about the future of Inorganic Chemistry for the first issue of the journal in 2009 ("Predicting a structured future").
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