The Rudolf Mössbauer Story : His Scientific Work and Its Impact on Science and History

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. 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 The "Rudolf Moessbauer Story" recounts the history of the discovery of the "Moessbauer Effect" in 1958 by Rudolf Moessbauer as a graduate student of Heinz Maier-Leibnitz for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1961 when he was 32 years old.