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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Erwin W. Mueller

Title:

Evan-Pugh Research Professor of Physics

Affiliation:

Pennsylvania State University

University Park,Pennsylvania 16802 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1977

Award Discipline:

Engineering

Award Year:

1976

Citation:

"For his invention of the field-emission microscope, the field-ion microscope, and the atom-probe microscope, which helped to resolve the atomic structures of solids."

Presented by President Carter at a White House Ceremony on November 22, 1977.

Posthumous

 

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