| Fritz Müller | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1926 Sünikon, Steinmaur, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Died | 1980 (aged 53–54) Rhône Glacier, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Switzerland |
| Fields | Glaciology |
| Institutions | Arctic Institute of North America |
| Alma mater | University of Zurich |
| Known for | Research on Pingos, gave name to Muller Ice Shelf |
| Influences | Lauge Koch |
Fritz Müller (1926 – 26 July 1980), was a Swiss glaciologist, who carried out research in Switzerland, Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Antarctica and the Himalayas.
Fritz Müller was born 1926 in a little town near Zurich and graduated 1954 in Geographies and Geology at the University of Zurich. After expeditions to Greenland and the Mount Everest he concentrated his work on cold region hydrology. In 1959 he became the scientific leader of a Canadian expedition to Axel Heiberg Island organised by the McGill University, where he became Assistance Professor of Glaciology. 1970 he changed to the ETH Zurich, where he became Head of the Institute of Geography and started the investigation of the North Water Polynya in the Baffin Bay. Fritz Müller worked also on the glacier inventories of the Swiss Alps and the world. He became director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service. [1]
In 1980 Fritz Müller died due to a heart attack during a field excursion for journalists on the Rhône Glacier in Switzerland.