Education
Born in Hartha in the state of Saxony, Müller attended the Volksschule (equivalent to elementary and junior high school) in Hartha and the General Electric Lessing Gymnasium (secondary school) in Döbeln.
Born in Hartha in the state of Saxony, Müller attended the Volksschule (equivalent to elementary and junior high school) in Hartha and the General Electric Lessing Gymnasium (secondary school) in Döbeln.
He and Eugene G. Rochow independently discovered the direct process of organosilicon compounds in 1941. That synthesis, also known as the Müller-Rochow process is the copper-catalysed reaction of chloromethane with silicon. After studying from 1923 to 1931 at the University of Leipzig, he received his doctorate in chemistry.
From 1933 onwards he worked as a laboratory manager at Chemische Fabrik von Heyden, a large chemical plant located in Radebeul and famous as the world"s first factory to produce salicylic acid on an industrial scale.
In 2001, a street in Radebeul was named in honour of Richard Müller.