Rudolf Mössbauer
German nuclear physicist
Died when: 82 years 226 days (991 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (German spelling: Mößbauer;German pronunciation: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈmœsˌbaʊ̯ɐ]; 31 January 1929 – 14 September 2011) was a German physicist best known for his 1957 discovery of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics.
This effect, called the Mössbauer effect, is the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.
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