biography
pronunciation:
[hofstater]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1915–90)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in New York City, New York USA. He performed research at Princeton (1939–40), then taught at the University of Pennsylvania (1940–1) and City College, NY (1941–2). After working for the National Bureau of Standards (1942–3) and Norden Laboratories Corp (1943–6), he returned to teaching at Princeton (1946–50), then Stanford (1950–80). He shared the 1961 Nobel Prize for Physics for his pioneering research on the structure of protons and neutrons. |
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