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Robert Hofstadter (February 5, 1915 – November 17, 1990) [1] was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons ". [2] [3] Biography.
Robert Hofstadter, Professor of Physics at Stanford University, was born in New York, N.Y., of parents Louis Hofstadter and Henrietta Koenigsberg, on February 5, 1915. Hofstadter attended elementary and high schools in New York City, and was graduated in 1935 from the College of the City of New York with the B.S. degree, magna cum laude.
Nov 17, 1990 · Robert Hofstadter. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961. Born: 5 February 1915, New York, NY, USA. Died: 17 November 1990, Stanford, CA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Robert Hofstadter was an American scientist who was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1961 for his investigations of protons and neutrons, which revealed the hitherto unknown structure of these particles.
He was the author, or co-author, of nearly 400 scientific articles and two books. Robert Hofstadter died at his home on Stanford campus on November 17, 1990, at the age of 75. The Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lecture series was established by the Department of Physics at Stanford University.
Robert Hofstadter, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.
ROBERT HOFSTADTER February 5, 1915–November 17, 1990 BY JEROME I. FRIEDMAN AND WILLIAM A. LITTLE R OBERT HOFSTADTER WAS BORN in New York City, educated on the East Coast, but spent most of his academic ca-reer at Stanford University. He is best known for his work on determining the distribution of charge and magnetic
Robert Hofstadter. Nobel Prize in Physics 1961 together with Rudolf Mössbauer. "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons".
Feb 5, 2016 · Born on 5 February 1915 in New York City, Robert Hofstadter was a Nobel Prize–winning physicist who exposed the structure of the atomic nucleus and its constituent particles. A professor at Stanford beginning in 1950, Hofstadter taught there until 1985.
May 12, 2023 · The Robert Hofstadter Memorial lectures were established in 1993 by the Stanford Physics Department. The lectures traditionally focus on one or more of the f...
