The “Rudolf Mössbauer Story” recounts the history of the discovery of the “Mössbauer Effect” in 1958 by Rudolf Mössbauer as a graduate student of Heinz Maier-Leibnitz for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1961 when he was 32 years old. The development of numerous applications of the Mössbauer Effect in many fields of sciences , such as physics, chemistry, biology and medicine is reviewed by experts who contributed to this wide spread research. In 1978 Mössbauer focused his research interest on a new field “Neutrino Oscillations” and later on the study of the properties of the neutrinos emitted by the sun.
Author(s): Rudolf L. Mössbauer (auth.), Michael Kalvius, Paul Kienle (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 436
Tags: Solid State Physics;History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics;Physical Chemistry;Measurement Science and Instrumentation;Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Recoilless Nuclear Resonance Absorption of Gamma Radiation....Pages 3-17
Rudolf Mössbauer in Munich....Pages 19-35
The Discovery of the Mössbauer Effect....Pages 37-48
The Early Period of the Mössbauer Effect and the Beginning of the Iron Age....Pages 49-68
The Early Iron Age of the Mössbauer Era....Pages 69-81
The Early Developments of the Theory of the Mössbauer Effect....Pages 83-92
The CalTech Years of Rudolf Mössbauer....Pages 93-109
The World Beyond Iron....Pages 111-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Nuclear Physics Applications of the Mössbauer Effect....Pages 145-174
Isomer Shifts in Solid State Chemistry....Pages 175-197
The Internal Magnetic Fields Acting on Nuclei in Solids....Pages 199-219
Time-Dependent Effects in Mössbauer Spectra....Pages 221-242
Mössbauer Spectroscopy of Biological Systems....Pages 243-261
Relativistic Phenomena Investigated by the Mössbauer Effect....Pages 263-291
Extraterrestrial Mössbauer Spectroscopy....Pages 293-316
Coherent Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence....Pages 317-338
Nuclear Resonance Scattering of Synchrotron Radiation as a Unique Electronic, Structural, and Thermodynamic Probe....Pages 339-356
Front Matter....Pages 357-357
Dreams with Synchrotron Radiation....Pages 359-372
Mössbauer Effect with Electron Antineutrinos....Pages 373-389
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
Neutrinos....Pages 393-415
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
The Second Mössbauer Effect....Pages 417-423
Back Matter....Pages 425-434
