Died 2011-09-14.
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Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
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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science · German physicist (1929–2011) · physicist · university teacher · nuclear physicist · also Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer, Rudolf Mössbauer, Rudolf L. Mössbauer, Mössbauer
Born 31 January 1929 · Died 14 September 2011 · Q44286
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2011· 2 entries
Mössbauer died at Grünwald, Germany on 14 September 2011 at 82.
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1988· 1 entry
Won Urania Medal (1988).
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1986· 1 entry
Won Albert Einstein Medal (1986).
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1984· 3 entries
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1984).
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Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1984).
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Gave undergraduate lectures to 350 people taking the physics course
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1983· 1 entry
And he married his second wife Christel Braun in 1985
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1974· 2 entries
Won Guthrie Medal and Prize (1974).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from Joseph Fourier University (1974).
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Lille-I (1973).
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1972· 1 entry
Rudolf Mössbauer went to Grenoble to succeed Heinz Maier-Leibnitz as the director of the Institut Laue-Langevin just when its newly built high-flux research reactor went into operation
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1964· 2 entries
Awarded Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1964).
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His alma mater, the Technical University of Munich (TUM), convinced him to go back as a full professor
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Order of Merit (1962).
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1961· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name.
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Awarded Rontgen-Preis (1961).
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Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1961).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1961).
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1960· 2 entries
To Caltech in the USA, where he advanced rapidly from research fellow to senior research fellow; he was appointed a full professor of physics in early 1962
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When Robert Pound and Glen Rebka used this effect to prove the red shift of gamma radiation in the gravitational field of the Earth; this Pound–Rebka experiment was one of the first experimental precision tests of Albert
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-01-31.
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