Jerome Isaac Friedman

Born March 28, 1930, Jerome Isaac Friedman became a physicist who helped crack open the atom's core. Working with Henry Kendall and Richard Taylor, he led experiments that scattered electrons off protons and neutrons at high energy—deep inelastic scattering—and found evidence of an internal structure no one had directly seen. That structure, later identified as quarks, reshaped particle physics and earned the trio the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics. Friedman went on to become institute professor and professor of physics, emeritus, at MIT, and now sits on the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of t…