Maurice Edmond Müller was born in 1918 and grew up in Biel.

Specialist consultant for surgery and orthopaedics

• Practised in Ethiopia, Holland and Switzerland (Fribourg, Zurich).
• Senior physician at the Orthopaedics-Traumatology Ward of the Surgical Clinic at St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital.
• 1963–1980 Prof. Dr med. and Director of the University Clinic for orthopaedic surgery at the Inselspital in Bern.

Author of various books and publications.

Besides twelve titles of Dr. med. h.c. and the Vesalius Honorary Ring from Basel University Maurice E. Müller is also an honorary member of 24 societies worldwide, including Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and holder of numerous international awards. Honoured as Surgeon of the Century in 2002 by SICOT (Société internationale de chirurgie orthopédique et de traumatologie).

Founder or founding member

• Association for the Study of Internal Fixation (AO) (1958).
• AO Laboratory for Experimental Surgery (Laboratorium für Experimentelle Chirurgie) in Davos (1959).
• AO Documentation Centre in Bern (1964).
• Protek AG Bern (1967).
• Maurice E. Müller Foundation for Advanced Training, Research and Documentation in Orthopaedic Surgery in Bern (1968).
• Fondacion Maurice E. Müller-Espana (1974).
• International Hip Society (1975).
• International Orthopaedics, SICOT journal (1976).
• The Maurice E. Müller Foundation of North America (1983), SICOT Fondation (1990).

Maurice E. Müller professorships and institutes

• Maurice E. Müller Institute for Biomechanics at the Medical Faculty of Bern University, Switzerland (1981).
• Maurice E. Müller Institute for Microscopy at the Biozentrum of Bern University, Switzerland (1985).
• Maurice Edmond Müller Professorship at the Harvard Medical School Boston, USA (1988).
• Maurice E. and Martha Müller Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at the McGill University Montreal, Canada (1990).
• Maurice E. Müller program in Teaching, Documentation and Outcome Analysis in Orthopaedic Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada (1992).