Robert Hofstadter (5 February 1915 – 17 November 1990) was an American physicist. He won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born on 5 February 1915, in New York City. He graduated from the City College of New York with a B.S. degree in 1935. He got his M.A. and Ph.D. in 1938 from Princeton University. In 1939, he won a Harrison Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, where he continued postdoctoral research.
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