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Henry Way Kendall

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American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics

United StatesScientistsLived 1926 to 1999 · aged 72
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Henry Way Kendall was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E.

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1997Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach
1990Nobel Prize in Physics
1989Panofsky Prize
1981Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Henry Way Kendall 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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United States
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1926 to 1999 · aged 72
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