Nobel Prize in Physics 1990

Jerome I. Friedman

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Prize share: 1/3

Henry W. Kendall

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Prize share: 1/3

Richard E. Taylor

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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"

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