The Rudolf Mössbauer Story

Along with its coverage of the history and development of Mössbauer's Nobel-winning research, this volume features expert reviews of the many applications of the 'Mössbauer effect' in a plethora of sciences, including physics, chemistry, biology and medicine.

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 .