Richard E. Taylor
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Richard Edward Taylor, CC FRS FRSC (2 November 1929 – 22 February 2018),[2] was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor.[3] 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."[4][5][6]
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Born | Richard Edward Taylor (1929-11-02)2 November 1929 Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada |
Died | 22 February 2018(2018-02-22) (aged 88) Stanford, California, U.S. |
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Fields | Particle physics |
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Thesis | Positive pion production by polarised bremsstrahlung (1962) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert F. Mozley |
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