Response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1985-1988.

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Response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1985-1988.

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File includes curriculum vitae and 26-page typed 1985 manuscript, entitled: A Personal View of Nucleon Structure as Revealed by Electron Scattering, in which Hofstadter describes his graduate studies at Princeton where he worked with Edward U. Condon and others; his interest in nuclear physics beginning in 1936; work before World War II with Louis Ridenour at the University of Pennsylvania; war work first on optical proximity fuses at the National Bureau of Standards and later on aircraft at the Norden Laboratory; and lengthy discussion of post war nuclear physics work at Princeton University and work at Stanford University on electron scattering beginning in 1950.

30 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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