HISTORY OF MÖSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY CALENDAR

 

Leopold May

Department of Chemistry, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064

 

April 30, 1900                        A paper prepared by Paul Villard entitled ?Sur le rayonnement du  radium? was presented by Jules Volle at the Monday meeting of the Acadếmie de Sciences on this date describing the properties of gamma rays. 

 

 

 

 

 

1903                                       Demonstration of optical resonance fluorescence by R. W. Wood was published in this year (Phil. Mag. 1903, 6(Sixth Series), 362).

 

April 20, 1922                        Hendrik de Waard, an Honorary Member of the International  Board on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect, was born on this day.

 

 

 

 

December 10, 1922.            Ulrich Gonser, an Honorary Member of the International Board  on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect, was born on this day.

 

                                                the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect, was born on this day.

 

 

 

June 18, 1923                       Vitalli I. Gol?danski, an Honorary Member of the International International Board on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect, was born on this day. For a biography, see obituary in Physics Today, December 2001, 72.

 

 

 

January 31, 1929                  Rudolph Ludwig Mõssbauer was born on this date.  He is an  Honorary Member of the International Board on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect.

 

 

 

 

 

August 5, 1934                      Philipp Gütlich, an Honorary Member of the International Board on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect, was born on this day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 15, 1939                  This is the date of publication of the paper by W. E.  Lamb, Jr., on        the neutron capture of g-rays that was used for theoretical explanation of Mõssbauer?s observations. It was entitled ?Capture of neutrons by atoms in a crystal? and appeared in Phys. Rev. 1939, 55, 190.

 

1951                                       First observation of Effect by P. B. Moon by mounting a source on an ultracentrifuge published in a paper entitled ?Interference between Rayleigh and nuclear resonant scattering of gamma rays? in Proc. Phys. Soc. 1951, 64, 76, during this year.

 

1952                                       Using a thermal method, K. G. Malmfors during this year published an observation of the Effect (Ark. Fys. 1952, 6, 49).

 

January 9, 1958                    First paper by R. L. Mõssbauer entitled ? Kernresonzfluoreszenz von Gammastrahlung in Ir¹⁹¹? published in Z Physik. 1958, 151, 124, was submitted on this day.

                                               

August 3, 1959                      The first paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁸²W (L. L. Lee, L. Meyer-Schutzmeister, J. P. Schiffer, D. Vincent, Phys. Rev.Lett. 1959, 3, 223 [59L01]) was received on this date.

 

September 25, 1959            The paper entitled ?Some Simple Features of the Mõssbauer Effect? by Harry J. Lipkin, was received on this date. It was    published in Ann. Phys. 1960, 9, 332. The second paper was published in Ann. Phys. 1962, 18,182.

 

November 23, 1959              The first two papers on the Mõssbauer Effect of ⁵⁷Fe were received on this date and published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 1959, 3, 554, co-authored by R. V. Pound and G. A. Rebka, Jr., and Phys. Rev. Lett. 1959, 3, 556 co-authored by J. P. Schiffer and W. Marshall. 

 

February 1, 1960                  On this date, the paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁹⁷Au (D. Nagle, P. P. Craig, J. G. Dash, R.D. Reiswig, Phys. Rev. Lett. 1960, 4, 237 [60N01]) was received.

 

June 1, 1960                          On this day, the first paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁶¹Dy was          received on this date and published as S. Ofer, P. Avivi, R.            Bauminger. Marinov, S. G. Cohen, Phys. Rev.                                                 1960, 120,406           [60O01].

 

June 6-7, 1960                      First Conference on Mõssbauer Effect was held during these    days at the University of Illinois. It was published as Mõssbauer        Effect; Recoilless Emission and Absorption of Gamma Rays, H.                   Frauenfelder and H. Luster, Ed., AF-TN     60-698, and is known as      ?The First Mõssbauer Conference Report?.

 

 

1960                                       During this year, first paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁵³Eu and         ¹⁹³Ir (A. Bussiere de Nercy, M. Langevin, M. Spighel, Compt.      rend. 1960, 250, 1031 [60B09]) was published.

 

1960                                       Before March 21, 1960, the first observation of the Mössbauer             Effect of ^119mSn (R. Barloutaud, E. Cotton, J. L. Picou, J. Quidort,             Compt. rend. 1960, 250, 319 [60B07]) was published.

 

October 21, 1961                  The first paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ⁶¹Ni (F. E. Obenshain,         H. N. F. Wegener, Phys. Rev. 1961, 121, 1344     [61O01]) was             received on this date. 

 

September 13-15, 1961      The Second International Conference on the Mõssbauer Effect             and the first in Europe was held in Saclay, France during these   days. The proceedings were published as The Mõssbauer Effect,                 D. M. J. Compton, and A. H. Shoen, Ed., Wiley, New York, 1962.

 

September 13-15, 1961      During  the 2^nd International Conference on the Mössbauer Effect, talks on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁶⁰Dy (R. Bauminger, S. G. Cohen, A. Marinov, S. Ofer, Proc. 2^nd Int. Conf. ME, 1962, p.177 [62B17C]) and ¹⁷⁰Yb, ¹⁶⁶Er, and ¹⁶⁹Tm (P. Kienle, M. Kalvius, F. Stanek, F. Wagner, H. Reicher, W. Wiedmann, Proc. 2^nd Int. Conf. ME, 1962, p. 185 [62K16C)].

December 9, 1961               A manuscript was received on this date describing the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁴⁹Sm and published as V. P. Alfimenkov, Yu. M. Ostanevich, T. Ruskov, A. V. Strelkov, F. L. Shapiro, W. K. Yen, Zh. Eksperim. I Teor. Fiz. 1962, 42, 1036 or Soviet Phys-JETP, 1962, 15, 718 [62A02].

 

December 9, 1961               A manuscript was submitted on this date describing the Mössbauer Effect of ⁶⁷Zn and published as V. P. Alfimenkov, Yu. M. Ostanevich, T. Ruskov, A. V. Strelkov, F. L. Shapiro, W. K. Yen, Zh. Eksperim. I Teor. Fiz. 1962, 42, 1029 or Soviet Phys-JETP, 1962, 15, 713 [62A03].

 

December 11, 1961             On this date, R. L. Mõssbauer was awarded the Nobel Prize     in         Physics ?for his researches concerning the resonance absorption           of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the                   effect which bears his name? and shared it with Robert Hofstadter        who received it ?for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in   atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning        the structure of the nucleons?.

 

April 26, 1962                        On this date, E. A. Phillips and L. Grodzins presented a talk on the                                                 Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁸⁴W (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 1962, 7, 359)             during this day.

 

 

April 26, 1962                        A presentation on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁵⁵Gd was made on             this date and published as an abstract as C. L. Herzenberg, L.     Meyer-Schutzmeister, L. L. Lee, Jr., S. S. Hanna, Bull. Am. Phys.                     Soc. 1962, 7, 391[62H07A].

 

May 7, 1962                           The first paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁵¹Eu by G. A.           Shirley, M. Kaplan, R. W. Grant, and D. A. Keller (Phys. Rev.           1962, 127, 2097[62S04]) was received on this date. 

 

May 25, 1962                        On this date, the first paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹²⁹I (S. Jha, R. Segnan, G. Lang, Phys. Rev. 1962, 128, 1160 [62J01])    was received.

 

July 3-6, 1962                        The first Working Conference on the Mössbauer Effect in the Soviet Union was held in Dubna, USSR, during these days, and the proceedings published as the Proceedings of the Dubna Conference on the Mössbauer Effect (English Translation, Consultants Bureau, NY, 1963).

 

July 3, 1962                           The observation of the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁵⁹Tb was presented          on this date at the Conference on the Mössbauer Effect in Dubna,        USSR (I. Dezsi, L. Keszthelyi, Proc. Dubna Conf. ME, p. 64/ 7-1             [63D14C]).

 

July 3, 1962                           On this date, a talk on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁴¹Pr was           presented at the Conference on the Mössbauer Effect in Dubna,   USSR (V. A. Bukarev, Proc. Dubna Conf. ME, 1963, p. 55/ 6-1                                          [63B23C]) during this month.

 

October 1, 1962                    The first paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ⁸³Kr was received on           this date (Y. Hazony, P. Hillman, M. Pasternak, S. Ruby, Phys.      Lett. 1962, 2, 337 [62H01].

 

October 1962                        A talk on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹²⁵Te was presented by R.     B.        Frankel, P. H. Barrett, and D. A. Shirley in this month and       published in Bull. Am. Phys. Soc.1962, 7, 600 [62F08A].

 

1962                                       The first paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁸³W (O. I.      Sumbaev,       A. I. Smirnov, V. S. Zykov, Zh. Eksperim. I Teor. Fiz. 1962, 42,         115 or Soviet Phys-JETP, 1962, 15, 82 [62S01]) was published       during this year.

 

May 26, 1963                        The report of the Mõssbauer Effect of ¹⁰⁷Ag (107) was   submitted on this day by G. E. Bizina, A, G. Beda, N. A.        Burgov, and A.V. Davydov, and published as Zh. Eksperim. I

                                                Teor. Fiz. 1963, 45, 1408 or Soviet Phys-JETP, 1964, 18, 973            [63B16].

 

 

May 30, 1963                        On this date, the first paper on the Mössbauer Effect of                          ¹²⁹Xe (C. L. Chernick, C. E. Johnson, J. G. Malm, G. J.                                Perlow, M. R. Perlow, Phys. Lett. 1963, 5, 103 [63C02]) was                                         received.

 

June 27, 1963                       The first paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ⁹⁹Ru (O. C.    Kistner, S. Monaro,   R. Segnan, Phys. Lett. 1963, 5, 299   [63K05]) was received on this date.

 

1963                                       The first book on Mõssbauer Spectroscopy (H. Frauenfelder,                                                    The Mõssbauer Effect, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., New York; 1963)                                       was published in this year.

1963                                       The first report on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁷⁷Hf (W. Weiden-    mann, P. Kienle, F. Stanek, Z. Angew. Physik. 1963,           15, 7   [62W03]) was published during this year.

 

April 17, 1964                        G. J. Perlow published a paper on the Mössbauer Effect of       ¹³¹Xe (Phys. Rev. 1964, 135, B1102- [64P01]). It was received on this date

 

April 27, 1964                        A talk was presented on this day on the Mössbauer Effect of     ¹⁹⁵Pt,   and an abstract published as A. B. Buyrn, L. Grodzins, Bull. Am.           Phys. Soc. 1964, 9, 410 [64B31A].

 

July 13, 1964                         The first paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ²³⁷Np by J. A. Stone and W. L. Pillinger (Phys. Rev. Lett. 1964, 13, 200 [64S07])           was received on this day.

 

July 28, 1964                         On this date, the first paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁸¹Ta    (S. G. Cohen, A. Marinov, J. I. Budnick, Phys. Lett. 1964, 12, 38     [64C05]) was received.

 

October 7, 1964                    The paper by G. M. Kalvius, ?Mössbauer Effect in Yb 171? (Phys.         Rev. 1965, 137, B1441 [65K01]) was received on this date.

 

October 13, 1964                  On this date the first paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹²⁷I (F. de          S. Barros, N. Ivantchev, S. Jha, K. R. Reddy, Phys.Lett. 1964, 13,   142 [64B18]) was received.

 

1964                                       The Mössbauer Effect of two nuclides of Os, ¹⁸⁶Os and ¹⁸⁸Os,   were reported during this year in the paper, R. J. Morrison, M.    Atac, P. Debrunner, H. Frauenfelder, Phys. Lett. 1964, 14, 35                                            [64N08].

 

 

 

 

January 26, 1965                  First Symposium of the Mõssbauer Effect Methodology was held         in New York City on this date. It continued annually until 1976.     The proceedings were published as Mõssbauer Effect                                      Methodology, I. J. Gruverman, C. W. Seidel, eds. (Plenum         Press. New York, vol. 1-10, 1965-1976).

 

March 8, 1965                       The first paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹²¹Sb was received on        this date (R. E. Snyder, G. B. Beard, Phys. Lett. 1965, 15, 244     [65S04]).

 

April 27, 1965                        A talk on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹³³Cs was presented by G. J.            Perlow, A.J.F. Boyle, and G. L. Montet at a meeting of the            American Physical Society (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 1965, 10, 1112                      [65P12A]) on this date.

 

June 14, 1965                       The first report on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁸⁶W (Y. W. Chow, L.           Grodzins, H Barrett, Phys. Rev. Lett. 1965, 15, 369 [65C06]) was             received on this date.

 

July 1, 1965                           On this date, a paper was received on the Mössbauer Effect     of         ¹⁵⁶Gd and ¹⁵⁸Gd (J. Fink, P. Kienle, Phys. Lett. 1965, 17, 326         [65F02]).

 

October 29, 1965                  A presentation on the Mössbauer Effect of ⁷³Ge on this date and          published as an abstract (J. L. C. Ford, G. Czjzek, F. E.       Obenshain, D. Seyboth, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 1965, 10, 1111                                       [65F07A]).

 

1965                                       Two papers on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁴⁰K (S. L. Ruby, R. F. Holland, Phys. Lett. 1965, 14, 591 [65R05] and D. W.      Hafenmeister, E. B. Shera, Phys. Lett. 1965, 14, 593 [65H03])                                                 were published in Physical Letters during this year.

 

March 20, 1966                     T. Ruskov, T. Tomov, H. Popov submitted a paper on the Mössbauer Effect of ¹⁶⁵Ho that was published in Compt. Rend. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 1966, 19, 701 [66Ro12].

 

September 1966                   Mõssbauer Effect Data Index 1958-1965, edited by A. H. Muir, Jr.,       K. J. Ando, and H. M. Coogan, (Interscience Publishers, New            York, 1966) was published in this month. This was continued as                          yearly issues until 1977.

 

June 1967                              The first Mössbauer Spectroscopy Institute was held during this            month at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. The          lectures were published as An Introduction to Mössbauer                            Spectroscopy; May, L.; Ed., (Plenum Press; New York, 1971).

 

February 10, 1971                Ranger Scientific. Inc., (Manufacturer of Mössbauer equipment)            was founded in Alva, OK, on this date.

 

August 25-30, 1975              The first paper on the Rayleigh Scattering of Mössbauer            radiation technique (RSMR) was presented during the        International Conference held in Cracow, Poland and published                               as D. A. O?Connor, Proc. Int. Conf. Mössbauer   Spectroscopy,           1975, 1, 396.

1975                                       The Board of the International Commission on the Mössbauer  

                                                Effect was organized during this year.

 

November 18, 1976              The first Nassau Mössbauer Conference was held at the            Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY on this date. The   papers were published as Proceedings of the Nassau                                   Mössbauer     Conference, C. I. Wynter and R. H. Herber, Ed. (Nassau                                                 Community College, Garden City, NY, 1977),

 

1977                                       The First Conference combining meetings usually held in the East        and the West was held in Romania during this year.

 

January 1, 1978                    The first issue of Mössbauer Effect Reference and Data Journal           published on this date by the Mössbauer Effect data Center at the             University of North Carolina. Its editors were John G, Stevens,                   Virginia E, Stevens and William L. Gettys.

 

April 1978                              The first Seeheim Workshop was held under the direction of P. Gutlich at the Seeheim/Bergstrasse, FRG, during this month.

 

1988                                       In this year, the first International Symposium on the Industrial    Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ISIAME'88) was held at                                                            Parma, Italy.

 

June 1989                              The Mössbauer Spectroscopy Institute, Industrial Applications was      held during this month at Ranger Scientific, Inc., in Ft. Worth, TX.                                                

1998                                       MIX, Electronic Journal on Mössbauer Spectroscopy, was                                                         begun in this year.

 

This is dedicated to the memory of Vitalli I. Goldanski (1923-2001), noted researcher and friend. The designations inside the brackets []are from the Mössbauer Effect Reference and Data Books and Journal. The assistance of Dr. F. Oliver, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, and Dr. T. Ruskov, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria, is appreciated.  A version of this Calendar as Mössbauer History Timeline can be found on Mössbauer Effect Data Center website, http://www.mossbauer.org/history.html.  Please send additions, corrections, comments, and suggestions with reprints to Dr. Leopold May, Depart-ment of Chemistry, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA. E-mail: MAY@CUA.EDU. A corrected version will be found at

http://chemistry.cua.edu/may/MossHist.htm.