Died 1990-11-17.
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Robert Hofstadter
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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science · American physicist (1915–1990) · physicist · nuclear physicist · university teacher · astrophysicist · also Robert Hofstadter, Hofstadter
Born 5 February 1915 · Died 17 November 1990 · Q130113
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1987· 1 entry
Won Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1986).
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the Université de Clermont-Ferrand (1967).
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1961).
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1948· 1 entry
Hofstadter filed a patent on this for the detection of ionizing radiation by this crystal
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1942· 1 entry
Married Nancy Givan (1920–2007), a native of Baltimore
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1935· 1 entry
At the age of 20, and was awarded the Kenyon Prize in Mathematics and Physics
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1915· 2 entries
To Polish Jewish immigrants Louis Hofstadter, a salesman, and Henrietta, née Koenigsberg
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Born 1915-02-05.
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1892· 1 entry
“The Importance of Correct Ideals”
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