Gerhard Müller (geophysicist)
Gerhard Müller (born November 25, 1940 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † July 9, 2002 ) was a German geophysicist who dealt in particular with seismology .
Müller studied geophysics in Mainz (diploma in 1965), then moved to Clausthal , where he received his doctorate in 1967 under Otto Rosenbach . In Clausthal he was a research assistant from 1965 to 1969. From 1969 he was at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Karlsruhe with Karl Fuchs, as an assistant and after his habilitation in 1974 as a private lecturer. 1971/72 he was at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM in Yorktown Heights in New Jersey and with Lee Alsop at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University . From 1979 until the end of his life, Müller was Professor of Mathematical Geophysics at the Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics at the University of Frankfurt . Müller put an end to his life himself after a long and serious illness.
From 1981 he was co-editor of the Journal of Geophysics , then of the successor Geophysical Journal International .
An important focus of much of his work was synthetic seismograms, which he had been dealing with since his dissertation. These are used, for example, to compare geological modeling with seismic data. But he also dealt with many other areas of geophysics. As part of the experiments on the fifth force published in 1986 , he carried out an experiment on a pumped storage plant in the southern Black Forest.
In 1997 he received the Emil Wiechert Medal .
Fonts
- Karl Fuchs , Gerhard Müller: Computation of synthetic seismograms with the reflectivity method and comparison with observations , Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., Vol. 21, 1971, pp. 261-283
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| SURNAME | Müller, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwäbisch Gmünd |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 2002 |