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Nuclear Physics Applications of the Mössbauer Effect

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If somewhere in the mid 1950s someone had made the comment to nuclear physicists studying nuclear decays that in 1958 a graduate student would discover a method that would ultimately allow measurements of certain γ-ray transitions in nuclei with resolutions as high as perhaps 10− 10 eV, the reaction would have been most likely a ridicule or worse. So unbelievable would such a prediction have seemed, but it did happen and the Mössbauer effect [1] provided yet another testimony to the wonders of physics!

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Henning, W.F. (2012). Nuclear Physics Applications of the Mössbauer Effect. In: Kalvius, M., Kienle, P. (eds) The Rudolf Mössbauer Story. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17952-5_9

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