The Rudolf Mössbauer Story, 2012 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.

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”.