Robert Hofstadter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Hofstadter

American physicist and Nobel laureate

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1915

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 17-Nov-1990

Profession: physicist, astrophysicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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".