Henry Way Kendall

Henry Way Kendall
Henry Kendall climbing in Yosemite Valley. Photo by Tom Frost.
Born(1926-12-09)December 9, 1926
DiedFebruary 15, 1999(1999-02-15) (aged 72)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materAmherst College (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
AwardsNobel Prize in Physics (1990)
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
InstitutionsMIT
Stanford University
Doctoral advisorMartin Deutsch

Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999)[1] was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman 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."[2]

  1. ^ Henry Way Kendall on Nobelprize.org Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Nobel prize citation". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2011-01-08.

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