Word: mueller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Physicists Georg Bednorz of West Germany, and K. Alex Mueller of Switzerland were named Nobel Laureates for discoveries in superconductivity...
Physicists Bednorz and Mueller were awarded for their discovery of materials which allow for superconductivity--the flow of electric current without resistance in certain metals and alloys--at higher temperatures...
...northern shore of Long Island. He acted and played basketball at Manhasset High School, where he was the only white player on his school team. He garnered the nickname, "White Shadow," from the rival Great Neck basketball squad. Regarding that nickname, Howard's former high school coach Fritz Mueller says, "sure he liked it, but he'd love any nickname. He was very funny and would spend hours singing in the showers with the other guys after practice, because Ken is a great singer, and they would keep me late...
...television show "The White Shadow," which he created, Howard played an exprofessional basketball player turned high school coach. Howard loosely modelled his character after Mueller, even wearing replicas of his coach's sweat gear. The show's players also wore the orange-and-blue of Manhasset...
According to Mueller, now retired, Howard was a more than able player. In his senior year he copped the Most Valuable Player for his district. "He was big, very mobile, a good jumper and shooter," Mueller recalls. Had he chosen to aim for professional ball, his coach says, "he would have given it a good...