Richard A. Muller

Richard A. Muller
Muller explaining antimatter
Born	(1944-01-06) January 6, 1944 (age 80)
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]