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Henry Way Kendall

Henry Kendall

American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Sex or Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Boston

Place of Death

Wakulla County

Country of Citizenship

United States

Date of Birth

12/9/1926

Date of Death

2/15/1999

Instance Of

Human

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Given Name

Henry
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Occupation

Physicist
Mountaineer
University Teacher

Educated At

Amherst College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Deerfield Academy
United States Merchant Marine Academy
Stanford University

Award Received

Nobel Prize in Physics
(1990)
Together With
:
Jerome Isaac Friedman
Together With
:
Richard E. Taylor
Award Rationale
: 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
Award Rationale
: för deras banbrytande undersökningar rörande starkt inelastisk spridning av elektroner mot protoner och bundna neutroner, vilka haft en avgörande betydelse för utvecklingen av kvarkmodellen inom partikelfysiken
Point in Time
: 1990
Prize Money
: 1,333,333 Swedish krona
Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
(1981)
Point in Time
: 1981
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Panofsky Prize
(1989)
Together With
:
Jerome Isaac Friedman
Together With
:
Richard E. Taylor
Point in Time
: 1989
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach
(1997)
Point in Time
: 1997

Member Of

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Physical Society
National Academy of Sciences
(1992 - )
Start Time
: 1992

Doctoral Advisor

Manner of Death

Accidental Death

Field of Work

Physics

Family Name

Kendall

Employer

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cause of Death

Drowning

Academic Degree

Doctor of Philosophy

Sport

Mountaineering

Archives At

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries

Father

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

English

Interested In

Physics
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