David Eugene Muller

Education

Muller received his Bachelor of Science in 1947 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1951 in physics from Caltech. An honorary Doctor of Philosophy was conferred by the University of Paris in 1989.

Career

He was a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Illinois (1953-1992), when he became an emeritus professor, and was an adjunct professor of mathematics at the New Mexico State University (1995-2008). He was the inventor of the Muller C-element (or Muller C-gate), a device used to implement asynchronous circuitry in electronic computers. He also co-invented the Reed–Muller codes.

He discovered the codes, and Irving South. Reed proposed the majority logic decoding for the first time.

Furthermore, he invented Muller automata, an automaton model for infinite words. David East. Muller was the son of Hermann Joseph Muller and Jessie Jacobs Muller Offermann (formerly Jesse Marie Jacobs).

His mother was one of the earliest women who received a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics in the United States, and he credited her with inspiring his early interest in mathematics. His family was dissolved in the Soviet Union.

He returned to Austin with his mother in July 1934.

His mother obtained a divorce in Texas in the summer of 1935. Sometime between October 1935 and January 1936, Jessie Muller married Carlos Alberto Offermann, who had been working in Muller"s laboratory and was on a visit to Austin from the Soviet Union at that time. Hermann Joseph Muller left the Soviet Union in 1937 after the start of Stalin"s political persecutions.

They had a daughter, Helen Juliette.

Hermann Joseph Muller received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1946. David East. Muller died in 2008 in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Connections

Father:

Hermann Joseph Muller

Mother:

Jessie Marie Jacobs

Spouse:

Denise Josee Impens

Spouse:

Alice Mimi Held

child:

Kenneth Muller

child:

Chandra Muller