In April 2009 Hofstadter was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

( The term " ambigram " was invented by Hofstadter in 1984 and has since been taken up by many ambigrammists all over the world.

Hofstadter was also an invited panelist at the first Singularity Summit, held at Stanford in May 2006.

Hofstadter was married to Carol Ann Brush until her death.

The Carol Ann Brush Hofstadter Memorial Scholarship for Bologna-bound Indiana University students was established in 1996 in her name.

Hofstadter is related by marriage to the late evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould: Hofstadter's paternal aunt Shirley Hofstadter was married to Gould's maternal uncle Herbert Rosenberg.

In the foreword, Hofstadter explains that the book ( originally published in 1958 ) exerted a profound influence on him when he was young.

* The femtometre, a convenient unit of length in dealing with distances inside the atomic nucleus, was coined the " fermi " by Robert Hofstadter in a 1956, and is still a term widely used.

A January 1983 Metamagical Themas column by Douglas Hofstadter, in Scientific American, was influential as was his 1985 book of the same name.

The name " quine " was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, in his popular science book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, in the honor of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine ( 1908 – 2000 ), who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference, and in particular for the following paradox-producing expression, known as Quine's paradox:

The term was popularized in the United States in 1944 by the American historian Richard Hofstadter who used it in the ideological war effort against fascism to denote a reactionary creed which promoted competitive strife, racism and nationalism.

Hofstadter later recognized ( what he saw as ) the influence of Darwinist and other evolutionary ideas upon those with collectivist views, enough to devise a term for the phenomenon, “ Darwinist collectivism .” Before Hofstadter's work the use of the term in English academic journals was quite rare.

The concept of a strange loop was proposed and extensively discussed by Douglas Hofstadter in Gödel, Escher, Bach, and is further elaborated in Hofstadter's book I Am a Strange Loop, published in 2007.

Although Hofstadter claims the idea of translating his book " never crossed mind " when he was writing it, when approached with the idea by his publisher he was " very excited about seeing book in other languages, especially … French ".

Historian Richard Hofstadter ( 1948 ) emphasizes that Calhoun ’ s conception of " minority " was very different from the minorities of a century later:

Zinn regularly included it in his lists of recommended readings, and after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, Zinn wrote, " If Richard Hofstadter were adding to his book The American Political Tradition, in which he found both ' conservative ' and ' liberal ' presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, maintaining for dear life the two critical characteristics of the American system, nationalism and capitalism, Obama would fit the pattern.

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

Hofstadter was born in New York City on Feb. 5, 1915, to Louis Hofstadter, a salesman, and the former Henrietta Koenigsberg.

They had three children: Laura, Molly-who was disabled and not able to communicate, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Douglas Hofstadter.

Douglas Richard Hofstadter ( born February 15, 1945 ) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics.

Richard Hofstadter was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1916 to a German American Lutheran mother and a Jewish father, who died when Richard was ten.

* Douglas Hofstadter ( born 1945 ), American professor, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and son of Robert Hofstadter

* Flint, Peter B., " Obituary: Dr. Robert Hofstadter Dies at 75 ; Won Nobel Prize in Physics in ' 61 ", The New York Times, November 19, 1990.

* Alexandr Pushkin, Basic Books ; New Ed edition, Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse Translated by Douglas Hofstadter ISBN 0-465-02094-1

Among the scientists Gleick profiled in the New York Times Magazine were Mitchell Feigenbaum, Stephen Jay Gould, Douglas Hofstadter, and Benoit Mandelbrot.

Some adopted New Left perspectives that he rejected, among them were Herbert Gutman, Eric Foner, Lawrence W. Levine, Linda Kerber, and Paula Fass, while others, such as Eric McKitrick and Stanley Elkins, were more conservative than he ; hence, Hofstadter had few disciples and founded no school of history writing.

The New Deal was a culmination of both Populism and Progressivism, however Hofstadter stresses that for the most part the New Deal was a " new departure " and despite its continual association with Progressivism, it was actually quite dissimilar.

Hofstadter expounds on the New Deal's characteristics ; the New Deal was not concerned with democratizing the economy, but managing it to meet the problems of the people.

* 1915 – Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1915 )

* February 5 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1990 )

When Hofstadter was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics, it subsequently appears in the text of his 1961 Nobel Lecture, " The electron-scattering method and its application to the structure of nuclei and nucleons " ( December 11, 1961 ).

In his last few years, Hofstadter became interested in astrophysics and applied his knowledge of scintillators to the design of the EGRET gamma-ray telescope of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory named for fellow Nobel Laureate in Physics ( 1927 ), Arthur Holly Compton.

* Hofstadter, Robert, " The electron-scattering method and its application to the structure of nuclei and nucleons ", Nobel Lecture ( December 11, 1961 )

* Hofstadter, Robert, " Robert Hofstadter's speech at the Nobel Banquet ", The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, December 10, 1961.

When Hofstadter was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics, it subsequently appears in the text of his 1961 Nobel Lecture, " The electron-scattering method and its application to the structure of nuclei and nucleons " ( December 11, 1961 ).

During his University of Miami career, he hosted several Nobel Prize laureates, including Paul Dirac, Lars Onsager and Robert Hofstadter.

Nobel prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter also worked on the technique in 1948.

* Robert Hofstadter ( 1915 – 1990 ), American Nobel Prize-winner in physics

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning historical essay on American anti-intellectualism, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote: " During the campaign of 1952, the country seemed to be in need of some term to express that disdain for intellectuals which had by then become a self-conscious motif in American politics.

The Age of Reform is a 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Richard Hofstadter.