# 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."

## Quick facts

- **Born:** 9 December 1926 ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190495#P569))
- **Place of birth:** Boston ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190495#P19))
- **Died:** 15 February 1999 ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190495#P570))
- **Place of death:** Wakulla County ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190495#P20))
- **Citizenship:** United States ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190495#P27))
- **Occupation:** physicist; mountaineer; university teacher ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190495#P106))
- **Education:** Amherst College; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Deerfield Academy; United States Merchant Marine Academy; Stanford University ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190495#P69))
- **Awards:** Nobel Prize in Physics; Leo Szilard Lectureship Award; Fellow of the American Physical Society; Panofsky Prize; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190495#P166))

## 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.

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## Sources

- [Wikipedia (English): Henry Way Kendall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Way_Kendall) — [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
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- [Image: Henry Kendall by Tom Frost crop.jpg by Tom Frost (CC BY-SA 3.0)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Kendall_by_Tom_Frost_crop.jpg)

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## Cite this page

"Henry Way Kendall". DigiNepal. Last updated 1 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/henry-way-kendall. Retrieved 6 November 2026.