The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

He did his post-doctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania before joining Stanford University. degree magna cum laude in 1935 at the age of 20 and was awarded the Kenyon Prize in Mathematics and Physics. D.

Robert Hofstadter (February 5 1915 – November 17 1990) was an American physicist. ".