A noted physicist and researcher, Robert Hofstadter was best known for his research on the nucleus of the atom . During his several years of experimentation, Hofstadter discovered that protons and neutrons were complex components of the atom, and not...

Hofstadter was born in New York City on February 5, 1915. He attended elementary and high school in New York City and received his bachelor of science degree from the City College of New York (now the City University of New York). He went on to earn...

1915-1990 American Physicist Corecipient of the 1961 Nobel Prize in physics, Robert Hofstadter discovered that protons and neutrons are not indivisible particles, as was previously believed, but are complex components of the atom. He also developed the...

Robert Hofstadter (February 5, 1915 – November 17, 1990) was the winner of the 1961 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...

Robert Hofstadter, 75, professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University and winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize for physics for his work in determining the size and shape of the particles that compose the atomic nucleus, died Nov. 17 at his home in Stanford,...

The relationship between politics and intellectual life, at the center of today's debate over political correctness," multiculturalism and other real and imagined sins of the academy, is hardly a new phenomenon. Throughout our history, contemporary political problems and commitments have shaped the questions Americans...