Anton Heidemann
(Grenoble)
02/09/2016, 10:30
Everything began with an idea of Heinz Maier-Leibnitz in 1966 : why not use perfect crystals as monochromators for neutrons with a Bragg angle of 90°? He claimed that the backscattered beam should be highly monochromatic. One of his students, Berthold Alefeld, showed experimentally that the idea was right. Then two thesis students developed the first ‘Rückstreuspektometer’ at the FRM in...
