Ulrich Müller

Ulrich Müller (born 6 July 1940 in Bogotá) is a German chemist who is known for his works on solid-state chemistry and the application of crystallographic group theory to crystal chemistry.^[1][2] He is the author of several textbooks on chemistry, solid-state chemistry, and crystallography.^{[1][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Müller studied chemistry at the University of Stuttgart from 1959 to 1963.^[1][9] He worked on his dissertation at the Purdue University and the University of Stuttgart.^[1] He finished it in 1966 in the group of Kurt Dehnicke.^[1][10] From 1967 to 1970, he worked in the group of Hartmut Bärnighausen at the University of Marburg.^[1] In 1972, he finished his habilitation.^[1] From 1972 to 1975, Müller was a professor for inorganic chemistry at the University of Marburg. From 1975 to 1977, he was a guest professor at the University of Costa Rica.^[1] Then, several professorships for inorganic chemistry followed: University of Marburg from 1977 to 1992, University of Kassel from 1992 to 1999, and University of Marburg from 2000 to 2005. Since 2005, he has been an emeritus professor.^[1]

His research focused on the following topics:^[1]

• application of crystallographic group theory in crystal chemistry to investigate structural relationships of crystalline solids and to predict possible structure types for inorganic compounds^[1]
• synthesis of thio, polysulfido, and polyselenido complexes^[1]
• structural analysis of crystalline solids with X-ray diffraction^[1]

He was awarded the Literaturpreis des Fonds der chemischen Industrie for his textbook "Anorganische Strukturchemie" (engl. Inorganic Structural Chemistry).^[11]

• Weidlein, Johann; Dehnicke, Kurt; Müller, Ulrich (1988). Schwingungsspektroskopie: eine Einführung (2nd ed.). Stuttgart: Thieme. ISBN 978-3136251027. OCLC 612028648.
• Mortimer, Charles E.; Beck, Johannes; Müller, Ulrich (2015). Chemie: das Basiswissen der Chemie (12. ed.). Stuttgart: Thieme. ISBN 978-3134843125. OCLC 928072732.
• Müller, Ulrich (2008). Anorganische Strukturchemie (6th ed.). Wiesbaden: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag / GWV Fachverlage, Wiesbaden. ISBN 9783834895455. OCLC 311302178.
• Müller, Ulrich (2007). Inorganic structural chemistry (2nd ed.). Chichester, England: Wiley. ISBN 9780470057261. OCLC 180718922.
• Müller, Ulrich (2013). Symmetry relationships between crystal structures: applications of crystallographic group theory in crystal chemistry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191648793. OCLC 850179696.
• Müller, Ulrich (2012). Symmetriebeziehungen zwischen verwandten Kristallstrukturen Anwendungen der kristallographischen Gruppentheorie in der Kristallchemie; unter Verwendung von Textvorlagen von Hans Wondratschek und Hartmut Bärnighausen (1. ed.). Wiesbaden: Vieweg + Teubner. ISBN 9783834817990. OCLC 766008905.