Description
This collection
contains the papers of former Stanford professor and Nobel Prize winning physicist Robert
Hofstadter. Included are lab notebooks and research data; lecture notes and teaching
materials; writings, drafts, and reprints; grant proposals; incoming and outgoing
correspondence; travel and conference papers; legal papers; biographical and personal
materials;clippings; photographs; and a small amount of audiovisual material. The papers
cover a wide swath of Hofstadter's career, including his student and postgraduate work at
Princeton University; wartime positions at The United States National Bureau of Standards
and Norden Laboratory; Stanford research including electron scattering and coronary
angiography; and his collaboration with NASA personnel on the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment
Telescope (EGRET).
Background
Robert (Rubvin) Hofstadter was born in New York City, on February 5, 1915. He was one of
four children of Polish immigrants, Louis and Henrietta (Koenigsberg) Hofstadter. Hofstadter
was educated in New York City and attended the City College of New York (CCNY) receiving his
B.S. degree magna cum laude.
Extent
88.25 Linear Feet
(69 boxes)
Restrictions
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must
be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special
Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/publicationserv/permissions.html.
Availability
Letters of recommendation in Accession 1995-014 and Accession 2008-003 are restricted.
Otherwise the collection is open for research. The collection is stored off site; materials
must be requested at least 48 hours in advance of intended use.