Robert Hofstadter

Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1915-02-05 in New York, NY, USA

Gender: male

Field: American physicist (1915–1990)

Biography

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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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961

Awarded on: 1961-11-02

"for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons"

Affiliations:

  • Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA