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"An era is coming to an end." With this statement, Joseph Schatzker, MD, former president of the AO (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen) Foundation, deplored the passing away of Maurice E. Müller, who died peacefully in the presence of his family on May 10, 2009, at the age of ninety-one. Professor Müller revolutionized the surgery of the locomotor system and was heralded as the "Orthopaedic Surgeon of the Twentieth Century" by SICOT, the Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie.