Henry Way Kendall

American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics · United States · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1926 to 1999 · aged 72

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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1999Died15 February 19991997Dwight Nicholson Medal for OutreachAward1990Nobel Prize in PhysicsAward1989Panofsky PrizeAward1981Leo Szilard Lectureship AwardAward1926Born9 December 1926