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In honour of the 60^th birthday of Wolfgang Friedrich Müller

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The microstructure of natural minerals and synthetic phases studied by transmission electron microscopy forms the core of the scientific work of Wolfgang Müller. The deviations from the ideal crystal structure and their influences on the physical and chemical properties are the main field of his research activities.

Wolfgang Müller was born on December 22^nd, 1939, in Berlin, Germany. After several moves during the war and postwar times, his family finally settled down in 1949 in Gräfelfing near München. After school, he studied physics and geology in München, then mineralogy and physical and inorganic chemistry in Tübingen. Wolfgang Müller worked towards his doctorate at the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology at the University of Tübingen under supervision of Siegfried Haussühl, finishing his thesis in 1965 on dissolution kinetics of crystals in water and aqueous solutions. Then, he became a research associate of Wolf Freiherr von Engelhardt at the same institute, changing his field of interest to shock-wave meta-morphism and to shock effects in minerals. He pioneered transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in the field of shock-induced deformation . . . [Full Text of this Article]