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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".
Robert Hofstadter (born February 5, 1915, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 17, 1990, Stanford, California) 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
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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.
Nov 19, 1990 · Dr. Robert Hofstadter, a Nobel laureate in physics in 1961 for pioneering research into the heart of the nuclear particles that form the basic building blocks of the universe, died Saturday at...
Jan 6, 1991 · Keywords. Nobel laureate Robert Hofstadter, 75, died November 17 at his home in Stanford, Calif., after a long bout with heart disease. Hofstadter's early investigations, in which he measured the size of the neutron and proton in the nuclei of atoms, won him the Nobel Prize in physics in 1961.
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1915-1990. American Physicist. C orecipient of the 1961 Nobel Prize in physics, Robert Hofstadter discovered that protons and neutrons are not indivisible particles, as was previously believed, but are complex components of the atom.
In this oral history interview, Hofstadter describes some of his early experiments on electron scattering in atomic nuclei, the body of work that demonstrated that the proton and neutron possessed structure and for which Hofstadter was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961. Department: Physics Project: Stanford Faculty Oral History Project
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