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Robert Hofstadter

1915 - 1990

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Robert Hofstadter (February 5, 1915 – November 17, 1990) was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Hofstadter is the 231st most popular physicist (down from 207th in 2019), the 907th most popular biography from United States (down from 783rd in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Physicist.

Hofstadter is most famous for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid," which was published in 1979. The book is a work of intellectual history that seeks to answer the question of what makes intelligence tick.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert Hofstadter ranks 231 out of 851. Before him are Makoto Kobayashi, Ettore Majorana, Alexander Prokhorov, Frederick Reines, Klaus Fuchs, and Edme Mariotte. After him are Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jacques Charles, Victor Weisskopf, Tsung-Dao Lee, Leo Esaki, and Vitaly Ginzburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Robert Hofstadter ranks 32. Before him are Robert A. Dahl, Joachim Peiper, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Jerome Bruner, Stanley Matthews, and Fred Hoyle. After him are Curd Jürgens, Les Paul, Henry Taube, Geraldine of Albania, Paul Tibbets, and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Among people deceased in 1990, Robert Hofstadter ranks 22. Before him are Sergei Parajanov, Norbert Elias, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, Ronald Evans, Ilya Frank, and John Bowlby. After him are Patrick White, Lê Đức Thọ, Miguel Muñoz, Sandro Pertini, Luigi Nono, and Arthur Kennedy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Hofstadter ranks 907 out of 20,380. Before him are Raquel Welch (1940), Jennifer Aniston (1969), Ron Perlman (1950), John Lewis (1940), F. Murray Abraham (1939), and John Hinckley Jr. (1955). After him are Chris Isaak (1956), Tippi Hedren (1930), Thomas Friedman (1953), H. H. Holmes (1861), John Huston (1906), and Edward Emerson Barnard (1857).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert Hofstadter ranks 49. Before him are Robert H. Goddard (1882), Melvin Schwartz (1932), Roy J. Glauber (1925), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Michio Kaku (1947), and Frederick Reines (1918). After him are Arthur Ashkin (1922), David Bohm (1992), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), Benjamin Thompson (1753), Leon M. Lederman (1922), and John L. Hall (1934).

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