Richard E. Taylor

Richard E. Taylor, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1929-11-02 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Gender: male

Field: Canadian physicist (1929-2018)

Biography

Richard Edward Taylor, was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "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."

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990

Awarded on: 1990-10-17

"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"

Affiliations:

  • Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA