Loading...Biography
Robert Hofstadter is Notable.
Robert was a physicist. Among many honors, he shared the Nobel prize in 1961 with Rudolf Ludwig Mößbauer (1929-2011). Robert's work involved electron scattering in atomic nuclei.[1][2] Most of his career involved scintillation counters, particle scattering, and their applications in nuclear physics. Later in life he developed detectors for a gamma-ray telescope.
He was born in 1915 to Louis and Henrietta (nee Koenigsberg) Hofstadter. He married Nancy Givan in 1942, and they had three children, including author Douglas Hofstadter.
In addition to information at Wikipedia[3] and the Nobel site,[1] there is a detailed professional timeline with some personal information at the American Institute for Physics.[4]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert Hofstadter – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2021. Fri. 3 Sep 2021. Robert Hofstadter Facts
- ↑ Robert Hofstadter – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2021. Fri. 3 Sep 2021. [https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1961/hofstadter/biographical/ Robert Hofstadter Biographical]>
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors. "Robert Hofstadter." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 19 Jul. 2021. Web. 3 Sep. 2021.
- ↑ Robert Hofstadter The American Institute of Physics, Physics History Network. Accessed online 4 Sep 2021.
- Wikidata: Item Q130113, en:Wikipedia
- "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X42M-P1N : accessed 3 September 2021), Robert Hofstadter in household of Louis Hofstadter, Manhattan (Districts 0251-0500), New York, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 465, sheet 13A, line 15, family 282, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1557; FHL microfilm 2,341,292. [Age 15 with father Louis (48, Austria), mother Henrietta (46, Russia) and siblings George J (23, New York), Albert (20, New York), and Shirley (6, New York). Louis is a tobacco salesman, George a dry goods clerk, and others list no profession.]
- "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3YR-4Z8 : 7 January 2021), Robert Hofstadter in household of Louis Hofstadter, New York City, New York County, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 31-2084, sheet 4B, line 69, family 96, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2675. [Age 25 with father Louis (59, Austria), mother Henrietta (56, Poland), and sister Shirley (16, New York). Louis is no selling corrugated boxes, and Robert is in scientific research.]
- "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGPJ-87M : 26 November 2014), Robert Hofstadter, 17 Nov 1990; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.