Nobel laureate Robert Hofstadter, 75, died November 17 at his home in Stanford, Calif., after a long bout with heart disease. Hofstadter's early investigations, in which he measured the size of the ...
Dr. Robert Hofstadter, New York-born Jewish scientist, was today awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in physics to be shared with Dr. Rudolf Mossbauer of Germany. Dr. Hofstadter, Professor of Physics at ...
It seemed that the atom—already split, measured, analyzed, and prodded by great machines—had few secrets left. Scientists were almost agreed that the atomic nucleus (one-trillionth the size of an atom ...
When the Nobel Prize-winning US physicist Robert Hofstadter and his team fired highly energetic electrons at a small vial of hydrogen at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1956, they opened the ...