Rudolf Mössbauer
Rudolf Mössbauer | |
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Mössbauer in 1961 | |
| Born | Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer 31 January 1929 |
| Died | 14 September 2011 (aged 82) Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany |
| Alma mater | Technical University of Munich (PhD, 1958) |
| Known for | Discovering the Mössbauer effect (1958) |
| Spouses | Elizabeth Pritz
(m. 1957; div. 1983)Christel Braun (m. 1985) |
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| Honors | Pour le Mérite (1996) |
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| Doctoral advisor | Heinz Maier-Leibnitz |
Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (German: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈmœsˌbaʊ̯ɐ] ⓘ; 31 January 1929 – 14 September 2011) was a German physicist who shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Hofstadter for his discovery of the Mössbauer effect, which is the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.