(1) Argonne National Laboratory, Building 206, Argonne, IL 60637, USA
Abstract:
I explore the fifty-year development of M?ssbauer spectroscopy by focusing on three episodes in its development at Argonne
National Laboratory: work by nuclear physicists using radioactive sources in the early 1960s, work by solid-state physicists
using radioactive resources from the mid- 1960s through the 1970s,and work by solid-state physicists using the Advanced Photon
Source from the 1980s to 2005. These episodes show how knowledge about the properties of matter was produced in a national-laboratory
context and highlights the web of connections that allow nationallaboratory scientists working at a variety of scales to produce
both technological and scientific innovations.