Urwumpe
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One of the biggest German physicists died last week in his home in Munich, at the age of 82 years. He already received his Nobel Prize at the young age of 32 years, and his discovery had been really significant for spaceflight:
He is the discoverer of the Mößbauer effect, am important phenomena in the resonance of materials when getting excited by gamma rays.
Which is used by the Mößbauer Spectrometer for analyzing the structure and composition of material samples.
And these spectrometers had been the primary scientific payload of all three US Mars Rovers so far.
Also, some Orbiteers might have known him personally, he had been professor ordinarius for experimental physics at the university of Munich until 1997.
He died already on September 14, but his death had been made public by the university just today. He had a great life from what I have heard about him, and who can really hope for more than getting a Nobel prize for the first big discovery as scientist and finally see his discovery fly to new worlds. His spectrometer will also very likely remain one of the most important tools for in-situ research of extra-terrestrial rocks for a pretty long time.
He is the discoverer of the Mößbauer effect, am important phenomena in the resonance of materials when getting excited by gamma rays.
Which is used by the Mößbauer Spectrometer for analyzing the structure and composition of material samples.
And these spectrometers had been the primary scientific payload of all three US Mars Rovers so far.
Also, some Orbiteers might have known him personally, he had been professor ordinarius for experimental physics at the university of Munich until 1997.
He died already on September 14, but his death had been made public by the university just today. He had a great life from what I have heard about him, and who can really hope for more than getting a Nobel prize for the first big discovery as scientist and finally see his discovery fly to new worlds. His spectrometer will also very likely remain one of the most important tools for in-situ research of extra-terrestrial rocks for a pretty long time.
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