What is Johannes Müller?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Johannes Peter Müller |image = Johannes Peter Müller.jpg |caption = Johannes Peter Müller |birth_date = {{Birth date|1801|7|14|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Koblenz]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1858|4|28|1801|7|14|df=y}} |death_place = [[Berlin]] |nationality = [[Germany]] |field = [[Physiology]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = [[Bonn University]] |doctoral_advisor = [[Philipp Franz von Walther]]<br />[[Karl Rudolphi]] |doctoral_students = [[Hermann von Helmholtz]]<br />[[Rudolf Virchow]] |influenced = [[Charles Scott Sherrington]] }} '''Johannes Peter Müller''' (14 July 1801 – 28 April 1858), was a [[Germany|German]] [[physiologist]], [[comparative anatomy|comparative anatomist]], [[ichthyology|ichthyologist]], and [[herpetology|herpetologist]]. In 1833 he became Professor of [[physiology]] at the [[University of Berlin]]. In the later part of his life he chiefly devoted himself to comparative anatomy. Fishes and [[Marine biology|marine]] [[invertebrate]]s were his favourite subjects. He took 19 trips to the [[Baltic Sea|Baltic]] and [[North Sea]], the [[Adriatic]] and the [[Mediterranean]] to investigate salt-water life. He authored a comprehensive work on the anatomy of [[amphibians]], which in his era including [[reptiles]]. Also, he described several new species of [[snakes]]. Müller mentored some distinguished physiologists and biologists, including [[Hermann von Helmholtz]], [[Emil du Bois-Reymond]], [[Theodor Schwann]], [[Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle]], [[Carl Ludwig]] and [[Ernst Haeckel]]. In 1834, he was elected a foreign member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]]. He was awarded the [[Copley Medal]] of the [[Royal Society]] in 1854. == Books == * Müller, Johannes 1837–1840. ''Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen'' (Human physiology), 3rd ed. 2 vols. Coblenz: Hölscher. * Müller, Johannes 1838. ''Ueber den feinern Bau und die Formen der krankhaften Geschwülste''