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Rudolf Mössbauer

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (born January 31, 1929) is a German physicist who studied gamma rays from nuclear transitions.

Mössbauer was born in Munich. He won, along with Robert Hofstadter of the United States, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961 for his discovery of the Mössbauer effect.

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