The Rudolf Mössbauer StoryThe Rudolf Mssbauer Story recounts the history of the discovery of the Mssbauer Effect in 1958 by Rudolf Mssbauer as a graduate student of Heinz Maier Leibnitz for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1961 when he was 32 years old. The development of numerous applications of the Mssbauer Effect in many fields of sciences , such as physics, chemistry, biology and medicine is reviewed by experts who contributed to this wide spread research. In 1978