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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 was a professor of physics at Stanford University who studied the scattering of electrons from atomic nuclei. He discovered the charge and magnetic moment distributions in the proton and neutron, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961.
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.
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Nov 17, 1990 · Robert Hofstadter was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and his discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons. He developed apparatus for examining how charges and magnetic moments were distributed in nuclei and proved that they had internal structures.
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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.
Learn about Robert Hofstadter's pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and his discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons. Explore his contributions to crystal detectors, gamma-ray spectroscopy and space-based gamma-ray astronomy.
