Robert Hofstadter (1915-1990)

Awarded the Prize “for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the stucture of the nucleons.”

American physicist. Hofstadter was born in New York on February 5, 1915. He obtained his M.A. Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1938. He joined the University of Pennsylvania in1939 the College of the City of New York in1941. He worked first at the National Bureau of Stards later at the Norden Laboratory Corporation. He was Professor at Princeton Stanford University. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1958. Hofstadter died on November 17, 1990 at Stanford, California.