Albert Josef Hofmann

Background

Hofmann, Albert Josef was born on February 27, 1933 in Uznach, Switzerland. Son of Rudolf and Agnes (Mächler) Hofmann.

Education

Diploma in physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland, 1957. Doctor in Natural Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland, 1964.

Career

Science co-worker, Swiss Federal Institute Technology, Institute for Nuclear Physics, Zürich, 1957-1966; research fellow, Cambridge (Massachusetts) Electron Accelerator, Harvard University-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966-1972; senior physicist, European Organisation Nuclear Research, Geneva, 1973-1983; senior physicist superptroton synchrotron-large electron position ring division, European Organisation Nuclear Research, Geneva, 1983-1987; professor applied research synchrotron radiation laboratory, Stanford linear accelerator center, Stanford (California) U., 1983-1986.

Achievements

• Albert Josef Hofmann has been listed as a noteworthy physicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Physical Society (Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators, 1996).

Connections

Married Elisabeth I. Bloechlinger, July 20, 1960. Children: Bettina, Sabine, Regula.

Father:

Rudolf Hofmann

Mother:

Agnes (Mächler) Hofmann

Spouse:

Elisabeth I. Bloechlinger

child:

Sabine Hofmann

child:

Bettina Hofmann

child:

Regula Hofmann