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Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
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Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer

1929 – 2011 · aged 82

German nuclear physicist and Noble Prize in Physics

Born
31 Jan 1929 · Munich
Died
14 Sept 2011 · Grünwald

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 94 years
  1. 31 Jan 1929BornBorn in Munich
  2. 1961AwardElliott Cresson Medal
  3. 1961AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  4. 1961AwardRontgen-Preis
  5. 1962AwardBavarian Order of Merit
  6. 1964AwardGreat Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  7. 1973AwardHonorary doctorate from University of Lille-I
  8. 1974AwardGuthrie Medal and Prize
  9. 1974AwardHonorary doctorate from Joseph Fourier University
  10. 1984AwardBavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
  11. 1984AwardLomonosov Gold Medal
  12. 1986AwardAlbert Einstein Medal
  13. 1988AwardUrania Medal
  14. 14 Sept 2011DiedDied in Grünwald

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1929 – 2011).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (German: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈmœsˌbaʊ̯ɐ] ; 31 January 1929 – 14 September 2011) was a German physicist who shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Hofstadter for his discovery of the Mössbauer effect, which is the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.

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