Class of 1935; Physics 1961 – Died Nov. 17, 1990

Robert Hofstadter, Professor of Physics at Stanford University, was born in New York, N.Y., of parents Louis Hofstadter and Henrietta Koenigsberg, on February 5, 1915.

Hofstadter attended elementary and high schools in New York City, and was graduated in 1935 from the College of the City of New York with the B.S. degree, magna cum laude.

He went to graduate school at Princeton University where he studied physics from 1935 - 1938 and received both the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1938 from that institution.