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Robert Hofstadter Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physics, 1961
Nobel co-recipient Rudolf Mössbauer
National Medal of Science - Physical Science 1986
Nuclear and particle physicist. Discoverer of sodium iodide scintillation counters. Carried out electron scattering from atomic nuclei, revealing structure of nuclei and nucleons. Original proposer of two-mile SLAC linear accelerator. Pioneer of gamma-ray astronomy, using EGRET detector aboard the Compton observatory. Research in laser fusion, applications of physics to medicine.
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| Publication: | 1/2 |
| Publication No: | US 4432370 A |
| Title: | Method and means for minimally invasive angiography using mono-chromatized synchrotron radiation |
| Publication Type: | United States Utility Patent |
| Publication Date: | Feb. 21, 1984 |
| Filing Date: | Oct. 14, 1981 |
| Inventors: | Hughes E Barrie, Rubenstein Edward, Hofstadter Robert |
| Original Assignee: | The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University |
| Abstract: | Non-invasive angiography is provided through use of monochromatized synchrotron radiation in a dichromographic procedure. A small quantity of an iodinated compound is introduced into the blood stream of a patient. An X-ray picture of a blood vessel such as the coronary artery can be produced by directing synchrotron radiation from a storage ring source at first and second selected wavelengths or energy levels through the blood vessel, detecting the attenuated radiation to obtain first and second signals representative of the attenuated radiation, and logarithmically subtracting the two signals to essentially eliminate all background contrast. Due to the K-absorption edge of iodine the resulting signal will emphasize the blood vessel containing the iodine. |
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| Publication: | 2/2 |
| Publication No: | US 3714057 A |
| Title: | Iodide activated thallium chloride scintillator |
| Publication Type: | United States Utility Patent |
| Publication Date: | Jan. 30, 1973 |
| Filing Date: | Nov. 12, 1969 |
| Inventors: | Farukhi M, Hofstadter R, Kramer G, Rosette K |
| Original Assignee: | Kewanee Oil Co. |
| Abstract: | A new high Z scintillator capable of generating light radiation upon exposure to nuclear radiation such as gamma rays, beta rays, protons, mesons, X-rays, etc. wherein said scintillator is transparent to said light radiation and consists of a major amount of thallium chloride and a minor amount of an iodide containing compound. |
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Name: Robert Hofstadter
Birth: 5 February 1915, New York, NY, USA
Death: 17 November 1990, Stanford, CA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons"
Field: nuclear physics
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