Robert Hofstadter
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1961for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleonsTogether with: Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
- Citizenship
United States- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 2/5/1915
- place of birth
- New York City
- date of death
- 11/17/1990
- place of death
- Stanford
- Lived
- 75 years
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- occupation
- university teacher
- nuclear physicist
- physicist
- astrophysicist
- field of work
- physics
- educated at
- City College of New York
- Princeton University
- DeWitt Clinton High School
- employer
- Stanford University
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1958
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1986
- American Physical Society
- start time: 1951
- National Academy of Sciences
- doctoral student
- Howard H. Pattee