Rudolf Mößbauer
The European Physical Society would like to pay tribute to one of its former members, Rudolf L. Mößbauer, who passed away, at the age of 82, on 14 September this year.
Mößbauer, who was born in Munich in 1929, worked with the Technical University of Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, the California Institute of Technology and the Institut Laue–Langevin during his career.
He is perhaps most well-known for his PhD work, in which he detailed and explained the recoilless nuclear fluorescence of gamma rays in 191 iridium – for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961. The phenomenon was ultimately named the Mössbauer effect in his honour.
Mößbauer was highly regarded, both as an atomic and nuclear physicist, and in his role as a teacher. He shall be missed.
