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class="row"> <div id="main" role="main" class="span9"> <div id="node-1165" class="node"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-faculty-type"> <div class="field-label">Faculty Type: </div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Deceased Faculty </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-faculty-title"> <div class="field-label">Title: </div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Died November 17, 1990 </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-faculty-addtitles"> <div class="field-label">Additional Titles: </div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Nobel Laureate, Professor </div> </div> </div> <p>Nobel Prize, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140228130505/http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1961/" rel="nofollow">1961</a></p><p>Deceased: November 17, 1990</p><ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140228130505/http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/shorts/hofstadter_BIO.html">Foreword to the Collected Works of Robert Hofstadter<br/> (by Robert Herman, 1993)</a></li><li>Wikipedia article:<br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140228130505/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hofstadter" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hofstadter</a></li><li>Nobel biography:<br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140228130505/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1961/hofstadter-bio.html" rel="nofollow">http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1961/hofstadter-bio.html</a></li></ul><p> </a><span>Memorial lecture series: </span></p><ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140228130505/https://physics.stanford.edu/2014-robert-hofstadter-lecture">Sir Michael Victor Berry, March 3-4, 2014</a></li><li><a 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