Erich Albert Müller

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Erich Albert Müller (born March 3, 1898 in Seidenberg ( Oberlausitz ), † March 10, 1977 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German physiologist .

family

He was the son of Erich Müller , professor of physical chemistry and electrochemistry at the Technical University of Dresden, and Else Standfuß. Müller was married twice, in 1949 to Hildegard Wecker (* 1916) and in 1960 to the psychologist Christiane Scherer (* 1942).

education and profession

Müller graduated from the humanistic grammar school, then studied chemistry in Dresden and medicine in Würzburg . In 1923 he passed the medical state examination in Berlin . Since 1922 he worked there with Edgar Atzler at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Occupational Physiology , from 1923 as an assistant. A year later he received his doctorate with a thesis on applied physiology. A one-year research stay with the English physiologist Ernest Starling had a lasting influence on Müller, in particular research on influencing variables of cardiac output on the heart - lung preparation.

After setting up an institute branch in Münster , Müller completed his habilitation in 1930 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University there for the subject of physiology and in 1936 received an unscheduled professorship. At the beginning of the Second World War, this institute was dissolved and in 1941 Müller took over the management of a department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, which had been relocated to Dortmund. In 1945 he was appointed scientific member of the now renamed Max Planck Institute for Occupational Physiology (today's Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology ). Müller stayed here until his retirement in 1966 and then lived in Freiburg / Breisgau.

power

Müller's achievements include the definition of the power - pulse index, an indirect measure of the work-related increase in pulse rate and the increased oxygen consumption due to work , as well as the development and systematic application - first in the US Army - of isometric muscle training . The focus of his work was on basic physiological research with the aim of translating scientific findings into practice in working life.

More than 300 scientific publications document the physiological issues at work: measurement and assessment of physical performance as a prerequisite for professional work performance , improvement of the workplace (“climate”), equipment and workflow ( recovery ), maintenance and increase of muscle strength , energy expenditure , training to maintain performance and avoid fatigue . Müller developed numerous physiological measuring equipment and devices: portable photoelectric pulse counter, portable Atemgasuhr , eddy current braked ergometer , air conditioning , construction of arm and leg prostheses.

Müller was a member of international scientific societies ( Royal Society of Medicine , London 1963, New York Academy of Science 1964) and co-editor of physiological journals.

Works

  • Influence of the lactate ions on the vessel size . Pflügers Arch Physiol 205 (1924) 233-45
  • Action of insulin and sugar on the respiratory quotient and metabolism of heart-lung preparation . In: J Physiol 65 (1928) 34-47
  • Energetic optimal conditions of the vertical downward pulling movement . Arbeitssphysiol 3 (1930) 477-514
  • Volume, power, tone and contractility in the mammalian heart . Ergebn Physiol 43 (1940) 89-132
  • Performance-pulse-index as a measure of performance . Arbeitssphysiol 16 (1949) 271-84
  • Muscle strength and protein ration . Biochem Z 320 (1950) 302-315
  • New air conditioning system to generate unequal air and radiation temperatures in a test room (with HG Wenzel). Cologne 1954
  • The measurement of physical performance with a single test method . Cologne 1961
  • The measurement of the change in vertical blood distribution when standing . Cologne 1964

literature

personal data
SURNAME Müller, Erich Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Seidenberg
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1977
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau