Robert Hofstadter - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics, joint winner with Rudolf Mössbauer, "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons."

• Stanford University has an annual lecture series named after Hofstadter, the Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lectures, which consists of two lectures each year, one oriented toward the general public and the other oriented toward scientists.