Nobel Prize in Physics 1990
Photo: Donna Coveney, MIT. Nobel Foundation archive
Jerome I. Friedman
Prize share: 1/3
Photo: Donna Coveney, MIT. Nobel Foundation archive
Henry W. Kendall
Prize share: 1/3
Photo: T. Nakashima
Richard E. Taylor
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990 was awarded jointly to Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall 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"
Nobel Prizes and laureates
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