Rudolf Mössbauer#
| Email: | beatrice.vbellen 'at' ph.tum.de |
| Membership Number: | 77 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Username: | rmossbauer |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1997- Professor emeritus at the Technical University in Munich
- 1964- Professor of Physics at the Technical University in Munich
- 1961- Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology
- 1960- Research Fellow and later Senior Research Fellow at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, U.S.A.
- 1959- Scientific assistant at the Technical University in Munich
- 1958- PhD under Professor Maier-Leibnitz at the Technical University in Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Discovery of the phenomenon of recoilless nuclear resonance absorption of gamma radiation (Mössbauer effect)
- Nuclear physics
- Atomic physics
Honours and Awards
- Nobel Prize for Physic, sharing the honor with Robert Hofstadter (1961)
- Elliot Cresson Medal, Franklin Institute (1961)
- Röntgen Prize of the University of Giessen (1961)
- Prize of the Research Corporation New York (1960)
- Member of Academia Europea
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