Hofstadter was born in New York City, the son of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter.

Another column reported on the discoveries made by University of Michigan professor Robert Axelrod in his computer tournament pitting many iterated prisoner's dilemma strategies against each other, and a follow-up column discussed a similar tournament that Hofstadter and his graduate student Marek Lugowski organized.

* 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.

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

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

* Physics – Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer

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

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

The character Leonard Hofstadter, featured in the CBS television comedy The Big Bang Theory, is named after Robert Hofstadter.

* Stanford University has an annual lecture series named after Hofstadter, the Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lectures, which consists of two lectures each year, one oriented toward the general public and the other oriented toward scientists.

* 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.

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

* Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lectures, annually presented at the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Physics and as of March 2011 listed under individual years ' calendars in the Department's official pages at the Stanford University website

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The term " orbital " was coined by Robert Mulliken in 1932.

The system was described in 1976 by Guy Ottewell and also by Robert J. Weber, who coined the term " approval voting.

In 1665, using an early microscope, Robert Hooke discovered cells, a term he coined, in cork, and a short time later in living plant tissue.

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In popular myth, the word ' documentary ' was coined by Scottish documentarian John Grierson in his review of Robert Flaherty's film Moana ( 1926 ), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926, written by " The Moviegoer " ( a pen name for Grierson ).

The term " Generation X " was coined by the Magnum photographer Robert Capa in the early 1950s.

The term " Gardnerian " was probably coined by the founder of Cochranian Witchcraft, Robert Cochrane in the 1950s or 60s, who himself left that tradition to found his own.

" Gardnerian " was originally a pejorative term coined by Gardner's initiate and contemporary Roy Bowers ( also known as Robert Cochrane ), a British cunning man.

Author Robert A. Heinlein coined the term in his best-selling 1961 book Stranger in a Strange Land.

Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.

In the late 1960s Robert Pincus-Witten coined the term postminimalism to describe minimalist-derived art which had content and contextual overtones that minimalism rejected.

Referred to by the Reporters of the Second and Third Restatements of the Law of Torts as the " scope-of-the-risk " test, the term " Risk Rule " was coined by Harvard Law Professor Robert Keeton.

" Stu Maschwitz coined the term " Robert Rodriguez list ", i. e. you make a list of things you have access to like cool cars, apartments, horses, samurai swords and so on, and then write the screenplay based on that list.

Robert K. Merton also coauthored ( with Elinor Barber ) The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity which traces the origins and uses of the word " serendipity " since it was coined.

* First to develop an academic hospitalist program ( and coined the term " hospitalist ") ( Robert M. Wachter ); the field is the fastest growing specialty in modern medical history

* Robert M. Wachter, a prominent expert in patient safety, who coined the term hospitalist and is considered the academic leader of the field of hospital medicine.

In 1969, aided by Robert W. Kendler, the president-founder of the U. S. Handball Association ( USHA ), the International Racquetball Association ( IRA ) was founded using the name coined by Bob McInerney, a professional tennis player.

The term appears to have been coined by John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, in the February 1941 issue of that magazine, in reference to Robert A. Heinlein's Future History.

Lloyd George had a considerable reputation as a womaniser, which led to his being nicknamed " the Goat " ( coined by Sir Robert Chalmers, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from 1911 ).

In the 1920s the term " cosmic rays " was coined by Robert Millikan who made measurements of ionization due to cosmic rays from deep under water to high altitudes and around the globe.

( The term " Waldo " was originally coined by Robert A. Heinlein to describe teleoperated robots.

Its unusual name, coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1858, refers to an ear severed from Robert Jenkins, captain of a British merchant ship.

The British philologist Robert Nares ( 1753 – 1829 ) says that the word hoax was coined in the late 18th century as a contraction of the verb hocus, which means " to cheat ", " to impose upon " or " to befuddle often with drugged liquor ".

The term was first coined in 1961 when the British author Michael Moorcock published a letter in the fanzine Amra, demanding a name for the sort of fantasy-adventure story written by Robert E. Howard.