Robert Hofstadter
American physicist and Nobel laureate (1915-1990) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 75
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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1990Died17 November 19901987Dirac Medal for the Advancement of PhysicsAward1986National Medal of ScienceAward1967Honorary Doctorate of the Université de Clermont-FerrandAward1961Nobel Prize in PhysicsAward1915Born5 February 1915
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Lived 1915 to 1990 · aged 75
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Lene V. HauBoth received Dirac Medal for the Advancement of PhysicsWolfgang PaulBoth received Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics
Klaus von KlitzingBoth received Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics
Herbert A. HauptmanBoth received Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics
Serge HarocheBoth received Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics
E. C. George SudarshanBoth received Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics