Henry Way Kendall
Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics."
Henry Way Kendall | |
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Henry Kendall climbing in Yosemite Valley. Photo by Tom Frost. | |
| Born | December 9, 1926 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | February 15, 1999 (aged 72) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Amherst College (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1990) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Particle physics |
| Institutions | MIT Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Martin Deutsch |
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