Gerhard Müller (geophysicist)

Gerhard Müller ( born November 25, 1940 in Schwäbisch Gmünd, † 9 July 2002) was a German geophysicist who dealt in particular with seismology.

Müller studied geophysics in Mainz ( diploma in 1965 ), then he moved to Clausthal, where he earned his doctorate under Otto Rosenbach 1967. In Clausthal he was from 1965 to 1969 Assistant Professor. From 1969 he was at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Karlsruhe with Karl Fuchs, an assistant and after the Habilitation in 1974 as a lecturer. 1971/72 he was at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM in Yorktown Heights, New Jersey and at the Lamont - Doherty Lee Alsop Earth Observatory of Columbia University. From 1979 until his death was a miller Professor of Mathematical Geophysics at the Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Frankfurt. Müller took his own life after a long illness itself an end.

Since 1981 he was co-editor of the Journal of Geophysics, Geophysical Journal International, then the successor.

An important focus subject of many of his works were synthetic seismograms, with which he was concerned since his dissertation. These serve as the comparable geological modeling with seismic data. He also dealt with many other areas of geophysics. As part of the experiments published in 1986 for the fifth force, he conducted an experiment off at a pumped storage power plant in the southern Black Forest.

In 1997 he received the Emil Wiechert Medal.

Writings

• Karl Fuchs, Gerhard Müller: Computation of synthetic seismograms with the reflectivity method and comparison with observations, Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc, Volume 21, 1971, pp. 261 -. 283