Robert Hofstadter
February 5, 1915 –November 17, 1990
Physicist, Nuclear physicist, University teacher, Astrophysicist
Lived 75 years
- Born in
- New York City
- Passed away in
- Stanford
Robert Hofstadter (February 5, 1915 – November 17, 1990) 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".
Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science, Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics, Humboldt Research Fellowship, Humboldt Prize, honorary doctorate of the Université de Clermont-Ferrand Education: Princeton University, City College of New York, DeWitt Clinton High School
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