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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kalvius, Michael (Editor), Kienle, Paul (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical chemistry.; Solid state physics.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Popular works.; Solid State Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Physical Chemistry.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; Popular Science, general.

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 Eff...

Table of Contents:

• How the Mössbauer Story started in Munich
• Discovery of the Mössbauer-Effect and its Early History
• Discovery of the Recoil Free Resonance Absorption of Gamma-Rays
• The Iridium and Early Iron Age
• Identification of Hyperfine Interactions in the Mössbauer Spectra
• Other Important Mössbauer Transitions
• CALTECH Years of Rudolf Mössbauer
• Selected Highlights of Mössbauer Spectroscopy
• Determination of the Nuclear Parameters of Many Mössbauer-Transitions
• Isomer Shifts in Solid State Chemistry
• Internal Fields
• Time-Dependent Effect
• Medical and Biological Applications
• Relativistic Effects
• Mössbauer Effect with Synchrotron Radiation
• Outlook
• Mössbauer Effect with Neutrinos
• Dreams with Synchrotron Radiation
• Neutrino Oscillations - The Second Love of Mössbauer
• The “Second Mössbauer Effect”.