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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990

"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"
Jerome I. Friedman Henry W. Kendall Richard E. Taylor
    Photo: T. Nakashima
Jerome I. Friedman Henry W. Kendall Richard E. Taylor
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA USA Canada
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA, USA		 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA, USA		 Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
b. 1930 b. 1926
d. 1999		 b. 1929
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