“for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons”
Robert Hofstadter was an American physicist who received the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons. He was affiliated with Stanford University when he received the award.
- Field
- Physics · Nuclear Physics
- Lifespan
- 1915–1990