Robert Hofstadter Ph.D.
Robert Hofstadter Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961
National Medal of Science – Physical Science 1986
Nobel co-recipient Rudolf Mössbauer
Name: Robert Hofstadter
Birth: 5 February 1915, New York, NY, USA
Death: 17 November 1990, Stanford, CA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Prize motivation: “for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons”
Field: nuclear physics
Biography
Books
Publications
Patents
Quotations
Honoring Hofstadter
Nat’l Medal – Physical Sciences
Honoring Hofstadter
Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lectures. Stanford University has an annual lecture series which consists of two lectures each year, one oriented toward the general public and the other oriented toward scientists.
Robert Hofstadter Physics Laboratory at Brandeis University.