Paul O. Müller

Paul O. Müller (born 18 April 1915 in Graz; died 9 March 1942 at Pechenkino near Sukhinichi) was an Austrian theoretical nuclear physicist who worked in the German Uranverein. He was drafted into the German armed forces and died on the Russian Front in World War II.

Education Müller undertook graduate studies at the University of Graz. He received his doctorate in Graz on 25 February 1939, under Erwin Schrödinger.

Career After 1939, Müller and Karl-Heinz Höcker collaborated with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik (KWIP, after World War II reorganized and renamed the Max Planck Institute for Physics), in Berlin-Dahlem, on the theory behind the Uranmaschine (uranium machine, i.e., nuclear reactor).

Internal reports

The following reports were published in Kernphysikalische Forschungsberichte (Research Reports in Nuclear Physics), an internal publication of the German Uranverein. The reports were classified Top Secret, they had very limited distribution, and the authors were not allowed to keep copies. The reports were confiscated under the Allied Operation Alsos and sent to the United States Atomic Energy Commission for evaluation. In 1971, the reports were declassified and returned to Germany. The reports are available at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center and the American Institute of Physics.

P. O. Müller Der Wirkungsquerschnitt der Uranspaltung G-7 (December 1939) Paul Müller Die Energiegewinnung aus dem Uranspaltungsprozess durch schnelle Neutronen G-49 (1941) Paul Müller Eine Bedingung für die Verwendbarkeit von Uran als Sprengstoff G-50 (May 1940) Paul Müller Die Neutronenabsorption in Kugelschalen aus Uran G-51 (April 25, 1940) Paul Müller Über die Temperaturabhängigkeit der Uranmaschine G-52 (September 30, 1940) Paul Müller Berechnung der Energieerzeugung in der Uranmaschine. III Schweres Wasser G-53 (April 29, 1940) Carl-Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Paul Müller, and Karl-Heinz Höcker Berechnung der Energieerzeugung in der Uranmaschine G-60 (February 26, 1940)