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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Richard Edward Taylor was born on 2 November 1929 in Canada and became a physicist at Stanford University. Working with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall, he conducted pioneering investigations into deep inelastic scattering, firing electrons at protons and bound neutrons with enough energy to probe their internal structure. The experiments provided essential evidence for the quark model in particle physics, confirming that protons and neutrons were not fundamental particles but composite structures. The three shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for the work. Taylor died on 22 February 2018.