The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2009;91:2773.
doi:10.2106/JBJS.I.01257
© 2009 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.
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Obituary

Maurice Edmond Müller 1918-2009

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Maurice Edmond Müller 1918-2009

"An era is coming to an end." With this statement, Joseph Schatzker, MD, former president of the AO (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen) Foundation, deplored the passing away of Maurice E. Müller, who died peacefully in the presence of his family on May 10, 2009, at the age of ninety-one. Professor Müller revolutionized the surgery of the locomotor system and was heralded as the "Orthopaedic Surgeon of the Twentieth Century" by SICOT, the Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie.

Born into a bilingual Swiss family, he benefited from French and German cultural influences, although his dreams were always in French. He started his medical training in Lausanne and finished in Zürich with a doctoral thesis on Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease. The amount of care and forethought that he put into the planning of his orthopaedic career is evidenced by his two years of travel, in the course . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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