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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Sixty years ago, political scientist Richard Hofstadter recognized this syndrome:
From Salon
Taking his cue from Richard Hofstadter, an influential 20th-century American historian and Roosevelt revisionist, Mr. Brown hews largely to contrary opinions.
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
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.”
Mr. Hofstadter likes to intertwine a couple’s names as a wedding gift, for example, so that “Rachel” rotates into “Winston.”
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