Rudolf Mössbauer
German nuclear physicist and Noble Prize in Physics
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Lived 1929–2011, aged 82Germany
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A German physicist who found a way to measure atomic nuclei with such absurd precision that gamma rays could detect motion slower than a crawl — and won a Nobel at 32 for it.
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Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer was born on 31 January 1929 in Germany. Working in physics, he discovered what became known as the Mössbauer effect, a phenomenon that allowed scientists to measure incredibly fine changes in atomic nuclei using gamma-ray absorption. The discovery was fundamental enough that it spawned an entire field: Mössbauer spectroscopy. In 1961, still in his early thirties, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Hofstadter. He died on 14 September 2011.
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