Robert Hofstadter
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 b...
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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 neu...
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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...
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Robert Hofstadter
Robert Hofstadter
Robert Hofstadter