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Henry Way Kendall
1926Dec, 9

Henry Way Kendall

Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, photographer, and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) 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."

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