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
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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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- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1958
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1986
- American Physical Society
- start time: 1951
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- National Academy of Sciences
- field of work
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- physics
- occupation
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- physicist
- astrophysicist
- university teacher
- nuclear physicist
- educated at
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- Princeton University
- City College of New York
- DeWitt Clinton High School
- doctoral student
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- Howard H. Pattee
- employer
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- Stanford University