Robert Hofstadter
Physicist, Academic
1915 – 1990
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Who was Robert Hofstadter?
Robert Hofstadter was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons."
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- Born
- Feb 5, 1915
New York City - Parents
- Spouses
- Nancy Givan
(1942/05/09 - 1990/11/17)
- Nancy Givan
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Arts, Princeton University
(1935 - 1938) - Bachelor of Science, City College of New York
( - 1935) - PhD, Princeton University
Physics
( - 1938) - University of Pennsylvania
( - 1939)
- Master of Arts, Princeton University
- Employment
- Norden Laboratory Corporation
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
( - 1946) - Assistant Professor, Princeton University
(1946 - 1950) - Associate Professor, Stanford University
(1950 - 1985)
- Lived in
- New York City
- Stanford
( - 1990/11/17)
- Died
- Nov 17, 1990
Stanford
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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