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Robert Hofstadter

American physicist and Nobel laureate

Died when: 75 years 285 days (909 months)
Star Sign: Aquarius

 

Robert Hofstadter

Robert Hofstadter (February 5, 1915 – November 17, 1990) was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".


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