Rudolf Mössbauer#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 77 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.e15.physik.tu-muenchen.de/staff/professors/prof_em_moessbauer |
Rudolf Mössbauer passed away September 14, 2011.
Positions Held
- 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 Europaea
