Awards & Winners

Robert Hofstadter

Date of Birth 05-February-1915
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Physicist
Robert Hofstadter was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons."

Awards by Robert Hofstadter

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert Hofstadter.

1986


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For his discovery and development of the sodium iodide scintillation counter leading to its application to spectroscopy in virtually all branches of science and technology, including imaging in medicine, and for his contributions to the understanding of the structure of elementary particles and atomic nuclei stemming from the development of the electron scattering method.)

1961


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons)