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当代杰出的实验物理学家罗伯脱·霍夫斯塔特(Robert Hofstadter)1915年生于纽约,1935年毕业于纽约市立大学。这位才华横溢的青年本来想当作家,可是他写的夸张型散文仅得了 C级,而物理却得了 A 级,于是事与愿违。1938年获得普林斯顿大学硕士和哲学博士学位。从此,他开始了物理科学生涯。霍夫斯塔特走出大学、步入社会以后,以其形式上的连续“跳糟”展现了他智慧的攀升和贡献的递增:1938年在通用电气公司工作和固体物理学家赛兹相识,引起了他对卤化碱发光的兴趣。1939～1940年他在普林斯顿大学教授光学,并在帕尔玛实验室做研究工作,同时还在宾夕法尼亚大学参加大静电加速器的建造。1940～1942年在纽约市立大学教书,1942～1943年,在美国国家标准局工作。1943～1946年,他在通用电气公司诺丹实验室研究飞机自动导航伺服系统,1946年任普林斯顿大学助教授,1950年任史坦福大学副教授,并开始了用直线电子加速器进行核与核子结构的研究。1954年升为正教授,并在7年后即以其科学成就——确定原子核的形状与大小,而获得1961年度诺贝尔物理学奖。1967～1974年任史坦福高能物理研究所所长。1971年继布洛赫为 M.H.斯坦物理学教授。1985年为荣誉教授。
Contemporary experimental physicist Robert Hofstadter was born in New York in 1915 and graduated from City University of New York in 1935. The talented young man had always wanted to be a writer, but his exaggerated essay had only Grade C, but Physics had Grade A, so he did so. 1938 Master and Ph.D. in Princeton University. Since then, he began his career in physics. Huffstadt out of college, into the community, with its continuous form of “leaps and bounds,” showed his wisdom and contribution to the ascendant increase: in 1938 working at General Electric Company and solid physicists Acquaintance, aroused his interest in alkali halide light. From 1939 to 1940, he taught optics at Princeton University and did research work at Parma Laboratories while also participating in the construction of a large electrostatic accelerator at the University of Pennsylvania. 1940 ~ 1942 taught at New York City University, 1942 ~ 1943, worked in the United States National Bureau of Standards. From 1943 to 1946, he studied aircraft automatic navigation servo system at General Motors Norton Laboratory, assistant professor at Princeton University in 1946, associate professor at Stanford University in 1950, and started the nuclear and nuclear structure with linear electron accelerator the study. He was promoted to professor in 1954 and won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics seven years later for his scientific accomplishment - determining the shape and size of the nucleus. From 1967 to 1974 Stanford Institute of High Energy Physics. After Bloch in 1971 as M.H. Stein professor of physics. 1985 honorary professor.