Richard A. Muller | |
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Born | January 6, 1944 |
Nationality | American |
Education | Columbia University (AB) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Doctoral advisor | Luis Walter Alvarez |
Richard A. Muller (born January 6, 1944) is an American physicist and emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In early 2010, Muller and his daughter Elizabeth Muller founded the group Berkeley Earth, an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit aimed at addressing some of the major concerns of the climate change skeptics, in particular the global surface temperature record. In 2016, Richard and Elizabeth Muller co-founded Deep Isolation, a private company seeking to dispose of nuclear waste in deep boreholes.[1]