Jerome Isaac Friedman
American physicist · United States · Scientists · Born 1930 · age 96
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Something wrong?Friedman fired electrons at protons hard enough to reveal what was inside: smaller pieces that turned out to be quarks, the bedrock of matter itself.
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Jerry Friedman in Valencia, Rey Jaime event, June 2016
Board of Governors Meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe 4 October 2013 20131003
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Greets BOG Members and Nobel Laureates Tim Hunt far left and Jerome Friedman 4 October 2013 20131004
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OIST BOG Members After Meeting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe 4 October 2013 20131004 (cropped)
OIST BOG Members After Meeting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe 4 October 2013 20131004
Physics Nobel laureate Jerry Friedman, 2016, laughing
Physics Nobel laureate Jerry Friedman, 2016In their own words 6
, Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.
Creativity is the basis of all innovation, and although it is doubtful that it can be taught, creativity should be nurtured in those who have it.
Young people should be given good support and freedom in their research.
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About this person
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 the Atomic Scientists.
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