Abstract.
I explore the fifty-year development of Mössbauer spectroscopy by focusing on three episodes in its development at Argonne National Laboratory: work by nuclear physicists using radioactive sources in the early 1960s, work by solid-state physicists using radioactive resources from the mid- 1960s through the 1970s,and work by solid-state physicists using the Advanced Photon Source from the 1980s to 2005. These episodes show how knowledge about the properties of matter was produced in a national-laboratory context and highlights the web of connections that allow nationallaboratory scientists working at a variety of scales to produce both technological and scientific innovations.
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Westfall, C. A Different Laboratory Tale: Fifty Years of Mössbauer Spectroscopy. Phys. perspect. 8, 189–213 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-006-0274-6
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Keywords.
- Rudolf Mössbauer
- Stanley Hanna
- Gilbert Perlow
- Mina Rea Perlow
- Michael Kalvius
- Stanley Ruby
- Robert Dunlap
- Gopol Shenoy
- Erich Gerdau
- Ercan Alp
- Wolfgang Sturhahn
- Thomas Toellner
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Big Science
- Mössbauer spectroscopy
- solid-state physics
- nuclear physics