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Henry Way Kendall

American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics

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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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Born
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Place of birth
Boston wd
Died
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Place of death
Wakulla County wd
Citizenship
United States wd
Occupation
physicist, mountaineer, university teacher wd
Education
Amherst College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Deerfield Academy, United States Merchant Marine Academy, Stanford University wd

Awards wd

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

Questions

When was Henry Way Kendall born?
Henry Way Kendall was born on 9 December 1926 in Boston.
Where did Henry Way Kendall study?
Henry Way Kendall was educated at Amherst College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Deerfield Academy, United States Merchant Marine Academy.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Henry Way Kendall · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q190495 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Henry Kendall by Tom Frost crop.jpg by Tom Frost (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Last updated · facts checked 5 November 2026

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