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Henry W. Kendall

nobel prize for physics


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Henry W. Kendall
Full Name
of the recipient		Henry W. Kendall
AwardNobel Prize in Physics
Year of Award1990
Share in Award33.3%
Award Shared withJerome I. Friedman (33.3%)
Richard E. Taylor (33.3%)
Motivation
for the Award		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
Affiliation
at the Time of Award		Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
Place of BirthBoston, MA, United States USA
Date of Birth9 December 1926
Age
at the time of Award		63 years
Place of DeathWakulla Springs State Park, FL, United States USA
Date of Death15 February 1999
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