1958 年，29 岁的德国物理学家穆斯堡尔发现γ 射线的无反冲发射与共振吸收现象，即穆斯堡尔效应，随之产生了穆斯堡尔谱学，此人亦因该发现于1961 年获得诺贝尔物理学奖.穆斯堡尔效应之发现造就了对于核力矩与电磁场间超精细相互作用一种全新的测试技术，其精度可至10-13 数量级，从而可分析出固态物质的诸多微观性质.其后，穆斯堡尔谱学已广泛应用于物理、化学、冶金、地质、生物、考古等各领域.

More than 50 years ago，in his doctoral thesis，the young German physicist Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer proposed the Mössbauer effect，which developed into Mössbauer spectroscopy. His discovery of the recoilless resonance effect of gamma rays emitted and absorbed energy was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1961. His discovery led to the development of a new test technique for the ultrafine interaction between nuclear moments and electromagnetic fields. This method，with an accuracy of 1013 orders of magnitude，can be used to anayze the valence，symmetry，magnetic behavior，phase transitions，lattice vibrations，and many other solid properties of matter.