What is Rudolf Mössbauer?
[[File:Mossbauer.jpg|thumb|200px]] '''Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer''' (31 January 1929 – 14 September 2011) was a German physicist best known for his 1957 discovery of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence for which he was awarded the 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]. This effect, called the [[Mössbauer effect]], is the basis for [[Mössbauer spectroscopy]]. He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Rees_Martin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Rees_Martin |title=Martin Rees |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mossbauer, Rudolf}} [[Category:Nobel Prize in Physics winners]] [[Category:1929 births]] [[Category:2011 deaths]] [[Category:German physicists]] [[Category:Members of Academia Europaea]] {{bio-stub}}