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Rudolf Mössbauer

1929 - 2011

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Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (German spelling: Mößbauer; German pronunciation: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈmœsˌbaʊ̯ɐ] ; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Mössbauer has received more than 155,835 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Rudolf Mössbauer is the 139th most popular physicist (up from 151st in 2019), the 457th most popular biography from Germany (up from 578th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Physicist.

Rudolf Mössbauer is most famous for his research into gamma-ray spectroscopy. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961 for this work.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Rudolf Mössbauer ranks 139 out of 851. Before him are Felix Bloch, Walther Bothe, Hideki Yukawa, William Henry Bragg, Peter Grünberg, and Augustin-Jean Fresnel. After him are George Paget Thomson, Donald A. Glaser, Auguste Piccard, Kip Thorne, Jacques Charles, and Georges Charpak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Rudolf Mössbauer ranks 33. Before him are Tigran Petrosian, James Hong, Sam Nujoma, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Isamu Akasaki, and Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. After him are Lata Mangeshkar, Chet Baker, Hafizullah Amin, Zdzisław Beksiński, Babrak Karmal, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Among people deceased in 2011, Rudolf Mössbauer ranks 18. Before him are Sócrates, Sathya Sai Baba, Joe Frazier, Annie Girardot, Ágota Kristóf, and Flórián Albert. After him are Ramiz Alia, Simon van der Meer, Willard Boyle, Dennis Ritchie, John Barry, and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Mössbauer ranks 457 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Frank (1889), Till Lindemann (1963), Ananda Mahidol (1925), Maria Josepha of Bavaria (1739), Roland Freisler (1893), and Adam of Bremen (1100). After him are George Paget Thomson (1892), Ernst Lubitsch (1892), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Rudolf Dassler (1898), Friedrich Fromm (1888), and Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Rudolf Mössbauer ranks 22. Before him are Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), James Franck (1882), Julius von Mayer (1814), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Ernst Abbe (1840), and Walther Bothe (1891). After him are George Paget Thomson (1892), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), Hans Geiger (1882), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Klaus Fuchs (1911), and Gerd Binnig (1947).

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