| Robert Hofstadter  Born: 5-Feb-1915
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 17-Nov-1990
Location of death: Stanford, CA
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Investigated electron scattering and nuclei Father: Louis Hofstadter (cigar store owner)
Mother: Henrietta Koenigsberg
Wife: Nancy Givan (m. 9-May-1942, one son, two daughters)
Son: Douglas Hofstadter (cognitive scientist and author, Pulitzer Prize winner)
Daughter: Laura
Daughter: Mary
University: BS, CUNY (1935)
University: MA and PhD, Princeton University (1935-38)
Scholar: Procter Fellowship, Princeton University (1938-39)
Scholar: University of Pennsylvania
Professor: Princeton University (1946-50)
Professor: Stanford University (1950-)
Guggenheim Fellowship 1958-59
Nobel Prize for Physics 1961 (with Rudolf Mössbauer)
National Medal of Science 1986
Guggenheim Fellowship 1958
American Physical Society
National Academy of Sciences
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Polish Ancestry
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