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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 146,610 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Rudolf Mössbauer is the 151st most popular physicist (up from 158th in 2019), the 578th most popular biography from Germany (up from 602nd in 2019) and the 26th 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 151 out of 717. Before him are Karl Schwarzschild, Hans Bethe, William Shockley, Johann Jakob Balmer, Ben Roy Mottelson, and Martin Lewis Perl. After him are Hans Geiger, Peter Grünberg, Val Logsdon Fitch, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Hugh Everett III, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Rudolf Mössbauer ranks 37. Before him are Graham Hill, Djalma Santos, Bill Evans, Zdzisław Beksiński, Francis Gary Powers, and Petr Shelokhonov. After him are Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Murray Gell-Mann, Bernard Haitink, Lata Mangeshkar, John Cassavetes, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Among people deceased in 2011, Rudolf Mössbauer ranks 22. Before him are Annie Girardot, Ágota Kristóf, Ramiz Alia, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Flórián Albert, and Gary Moore. After him are Dennis Ritchie, Willard Boyle, Sidney Lumet, John Barry, Necmettin Erbakan, and Norman Foster Ramsey Jr..

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Mössbauer ranks 578 out of 6,142. Before him are Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653), Prince Leopold of Bavaria (1846), Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (1907), Rudolf von Jhering (1818), George Grosz (1893), and Simon Marius (1573). After him are Hans Geiger (1882), Michael Thonet (1796), Ludwig Tieck (1773), Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria (1839), Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1858), and Hans Luther (1879).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Rudolf Mössbauer ranks 26. Before him are Julius von Mayer (1814), Ernst Abbe (1840), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), and Karl Schwarzschild (1873). After him are Hans Geiger (1882), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Gerd Binnig (1947), Wolfgang Paul (1913), Herbert Kroemer (1928), and Max Delbrück (1906).

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