Despite the fact that the University of Illinois campus is “centrally isolated” more than 80 physicists (including the discoverer, Rudolf Mössbauer) from 23 university, government, and industrial laboratories in eight foreign countries and the United States converged on Allerton House, the University of Illinois conference retreat, on June 5. They came to report their most recent, unpublished experiments and to present and discuss their ideas for future research in the exciting field of recoilless gamma‐ray absorption. The meeting was held as an On‐Site Advisory Meeting to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research; it was arranged in less than six weeks by Hans Frauenfelder of the University of Illinois with the support and cooperation of Max Swerdlow (Solid State Directorate, AFOSR). All discussions were informal and it was assumed that everyone at the meeting knew everything published on the Mössbauer effect. At each of three half‐day sessions several related problems were presented.
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November 1960
November 01 1960
The Mössbauer effect: A conference report
The authors of the following summary are both at the University of Illinois at Urbana. David S. Lieberman is a member of the Department of Mining and Metallurgy and Edgar Lüscher is in the University's Department of Physics and Coordinated Science Laboratory.
Physics Today 13 (11), 20–23 (1960);