Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1929-01-31 in Munich, Germany

Gender: male

Field: German physicist (1929–2011

Biography

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer was a German physicist who shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Hofstadter for his discovery of the Mössbauer effect, which is the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961

Awarded on: 1961-11-02

"for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name"

Affiliations:

  • Technical UniversityMunich, Germany
  • California Institute of Technology (Caltech)Pasadena, CA, USA