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Show Nobel winner to speak Dr. Rudolph Moessbauer, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, will deliver the final University of Utah Frontiers of Science lecture on Wednesday, March 26 at 7 p.m. in Mark H. Greene Hall. Dr. Moessbauer, a member of the Technische Hochschule faculty in Munich, Germany, will speak on "Gamma Resonance Spectroscopy." Sponsored by the Utah Department of Physics, the lecture is free and open to the public. The German physicist will deliver two other technical lectures while on campus. On Friday, March 28 at 7 p.m. in 103 North Physics Building, he will speak on "Isomer Shifts and Chemical Bonds" and at 8:30 p.m. he will discuss "Magnetic Hyperfine Interactions." In 1961, three years after obtaining his Ph.D. degree from Technische Hochschule, Dr. Moessbauer was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. His doctoral thesis outlined a method, now known as the Moessbauer Effect, which has enabled scientists to measure the change in the weight of light as it falls under the influence of gravity and to study many solid state properties of crystals. Dr. Moessbauer's experimental and theoretical investigations in the fields of nuclear and solid state physics have earned him several other honors, among them: A Research Corporation Award (1960), the Elliott Cresson Medal of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute (1961), the Bavarin Order of Merit (1962) and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Minnesota's Gustavus Adolphus College (1963). |