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Dear Wikipedia:

My former colleague/boss at the University of Zurich Dental Institute, Prof. Hans R. Mühlemann, was the subject of a Wikipedia piece in German. Now I would like to present myself in Wikipedia to the English-speaking audience worldwide.

I am Ulrich P. Saxer, one of 14 postdoctoral (Ph.D.) students of Prof. Hans R. Mühlemann at the University of Zurich. Together with several other of Mühlemann’s coworkers, including Dr. Thomas M. Hassell, who joined Mühlemann’s cadre of scientists after receiving the D.D.S. degree from Indiana University in 1969, we prepared a German-language Wikipedia piece. I worked with Prof. Mühlemann since 1967, up until his retirement and emeritus status in 1983.

To honor Prof. Mühlemann on what would have been his 100th birthday (26 June 2017), we assembled three commemorative editions of the professional journal SWISS DENT, celebrating Mühlemann’s life, his research and his many academic credentials world wide. Working together in this noble project were Prof. Klaus G. König and Prof. Heinz H. Renggli (the Netherlands), Prof. Thomas Imfeld (Switzerland), Prof. Thomas Hassell (U.S.A.), Dr. Herbert Wolf (Zurich), and Dr. Felix Wüst (Zurich), Editor-in-Chief of SWISS DENT. The first edition presents a panoply of Mühlemann’s scientific publications in SWISS DENT from 1980 through 1985. The second edition presented a series of commemorative articles written by Mühlimann’s coworkers and presented at a symposium in Zurich on the occasion of Mühlemann’s 100th birthday. The third edition is an all-English translation of the original German language articles published in the second edition.

I have been asked by my former colleagues and coworkers to place a commemoration of Mühlemann’s life work and legacy on Wikipedia International. I have prepared this in collaboration with one of my sons-in-law and the daughter of Prof. H.R. Mühlemann: Marietta Jung-Mühlemann. As for me, I graduated as a dentist from the University of Zurich in 1967, received my specialty accreditation in periodontology in 1972, and published my dissertation on a 10-year clinical study of dental decay in school children and young adults. I served as the first director of two public Swiss Dental Hygiene schools in 1973, and a private Dental Hygiene School in Zurich in 1994. I played a pivotal role in the establishment of two additional dental hygiene schools in Bern (1994) and Geneva (1996).

Respectfully submitted,

Ulrich P. Saxer, Prof.Dr.med.dent.