The Mössbauer effect: A conference report

DESPITE the fact that the University of Illinois campus is "centrally isolated" 1 more than 80 physicists (including the discoverer, Rudolf Mossbauer) from 23 university, government, and industrial laboratories in eight foreign countries and the United States converged on Allerton House, the University of Illinois conference retreat, on June 5. They came to report their most recent, unpublished experiments and to present and discuss their ideas for future research in the exciting field of recoilless gamma-ray absorption. 2