Hofstadter

American  

[hof-stat-er, -stah-ter] / ˈhɒfˌstæt ər, -ˌstɑ tər /

noun

1. Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.

2. Robert, 1915–90, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1961.

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Hofstadter Scientific  

/ hŏf′stăt′ər /

1. American physicist who determined the inner structure of protons and neutrons (1948) and in 1961 shared with German physicist Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer the 1961 Nobel Prize for physics.

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Example Sentences

In his review Dan Hofstadter characterized the challenge Mr. Campbell’s book takes on as “the debunking of a figure who never existed but also the scholarly attempt to create at least a partial image of one who did.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Ambigrams are the product of tweaking and iteration, the details of which Mr. Hofstadter narrates in detail.

From The Wall Street Journal

He self-referentially calls himself “that sadistic letter-abuser, Douglas R. Hofstadter,” and there is indeed a lot of vigorous torquing of serifs.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I encourage them to read the ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’ by Martin Luther King, the ‘Paranoid Style in American Politics’ by Richard Hofstadter,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times