Hofstadter, Robert

I discussed these ideas in detail with the late Robert Hofstadter (Stanford University) in 1977 who accepted to serve as one ofthe trustees of the Foundation. The remaining trustees included Willis E. Lamb, (Yale University), Glenn T. Seaborg,... 

Gossett, Race, pp. 198-227 Robert Bannister, Social Darwinism Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought (Philadelphia Temple University Press, 1979), pp. 212-225 Richard Hofstadter, Social Darwinism in American Thought (Boston Beacon, 1944), pp. 143-200 Walter LaFeber, The New Empire An Interpretation of American Expansionism (Ithaca Cornell University Press, 1964) Jack London, The Sea-Wolf [1904] (New York New American Library, 1964), pp. 68-69, 24, 79 Frank Norris, McTeague [1899] (New York Norton, 1977), pp. 25, 135. 

Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mossbauer 1904 Lord Rayleigh... 

In 1947, Robert Hofstadter invented the sodium iodide thalhum-activated scintillation crystal, which made possible gamma energy spectrometry, pioneered by P.R.Bell and Craig Harris at ORINS. Spectrometry greatiy improved the efi dency of detection of radioactive tracers labeled with multiple radionuchdes. Crystal detectors were more sensitive in the measurement of radioactivity both in vivo and in vitro. 

In 1961, some experimental results providing support for this picture of the proton and the neutron were reported by Robert Hofstadter and his CO workers at Stanford University and by a group of investigators at Cornell University. These physicists studied the scattering of high-speed electrons by protons and neutrons, and were able to interpret their experiments to determine the distribution of electric charge with the proton and the neutron. 

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