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Also known as Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer

German nuclear physicist and Noble Prize in Physics

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Rudolf Mössbauer was a German nuclear physicist who discovered a phenomenon involving the emission and absorption of gamma rays by atomic nuclei without recoil loss, a breakthrough that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics. His discovery, known as the Mössbauer effect, became a powerful tool for precise measurements in physics and has applications in fields ranging from fundamental physics research to materials science and geophysics.

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1929
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1956-11-30
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1929-01-31
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2011-09-14
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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.

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