Abstract: I was at the University of Illinois at Urbana in the academic year 1958–1959 when I first heard about the Mossbauer effect. My contacts with Bardeen and his theory group taught me everything I needed to know about solid state physics to understand the Mossbauer effect. I also learned at Urbana from Fred Seitz that my old friend Kundan Singwi had done pioneering work in neutron scattering which was very relevant to the Mossbauer effect. I had met Kundan and his wife Helga in 1953 when we were both postdocs learning about nuclear energy at Sacl...
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Nuclear physics