Hofstadter
Americannoun
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Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
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Robert, 1915–90, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1961.
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On the CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory," characters Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter wrestled with the same idea across three episodes in Season 5.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 28, 2025
Mr. Hofstadter likes to intertwine a couple’s names as a wedding gift, for example, so that “Rachel” rotates into “Winston.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
In the 1960s, political scientist Richard Hofstadter wrote that America had periodically been swept by waves of conformist anti-intellectualism:
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025
In a 1964 article in Harper’s, the historian Richard Hofstadter outlined what he called “the paranoid style” in American politics.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2025
There’s something to this, of course, but Martin Gardner, Douglas Hofstadter, and Raymond Smullyan are three obvious counter-examples.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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