January 18, 2022
“Dietrich was a renowned cosmic ray experimentalist with a gift for devising innovative instrumentation,” said Prof. Scott Wakely, Müller’s friend and colleague for many years. “He was legendary for asking exactly the question you should have been thinking about, but weren’t.”
“With him goes an era,” said longtime colleague Michael Turner, the Bruce V. and Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at UChicago.