| Paul Milford Muller | |
| Birth Date: | 30 September 1937[1] |
| Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, US |
| Death Date: | (death announced on this date) |
| Death Place: | Tak Province, Thailand |
| Occupation: | Author Businessman Aerospace engineering |
| Known For: | Sage Group |
| Awards: | Magellanic Premium FRAS |
Paul Milford Muller (1937–2013) was an American aerospace engineer, fiction author, and the co-founder of Sage Group, the United Kingdom's largest software business.
Muller was born on September 30, 1937, in Los Angeles, California.[2] Muller studied mathematics and history at California State University and later was awarded a PhD in physics: astronomy & planetary science by Newcastle University in 1975.[2] This PhD work was published as a book, An analysis of the ancient astronomical observations with the implications for geophysics and cosmology.[3] In 1963 Muller became a high school teacher of Mathematics in California.[1]
Muller worked for NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory between 1966 and 1977 and was as a senior member of the Apollo navigation team.[4] In 1971 Muller was awarded the Magellanic Premium award along with William L. Sjogren the for their discovery of mass concentrations in the moon's ringed basins.[5] [6] In 1970 Muller was made a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, proposed by Harold Urey.[1]
In the early 1980s, Muller co-founded the business software company Sage Group along with David Goldman and Graham Wylie in Newcastle upon Tyne, England while he was a computer science lecturer at Newcastle University.[7] Muller left Sage in late 1985 following a dispute with fellow shareholders and took legal action against them and the company in the following years. After leaving Sage Muller returned to the United States.[8]
In later life Muller lived in Mae Sot, Thailand and became an author of fiction novels having three books published by Club Lighthouse in 2012; Suicide Inc., Flight of the Marbles and The Circle of Ouroboros.[9] He also co-founded the Aarau Literary Agency in 2001.[1]
Muller was found dead inside a house in Tak Province, Thailand in late May 2013, aged 75.[10]