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Richard E. Taylor

Canadian physicist (1929-2018)

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Richard Edward Taylor, was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "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
Medicine Hat wd
Died
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Place of death
Stanford wd
Citizenship
Canada wd
Occupation
physicist, university teacher wd
Education
Stanford University, University of Alberta wd

Awards wd

  • Guggenheim Fellowship
  • Fellow of the Royal Society
  • Nobel Prize in Physics (1990)
  • Companion of the Order of Canada
  • Wolfgang Paul Lecture (1994)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • Panofsky Prize (1989)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
  • honorary doctorate at the Blaise-Pascal university (1997)
  • honorary doctorate from University of Paris-XI (1980)

Questions

When was Richard E. Taylor born?
Richard E. Taylor was born on 2 November 1929 in Medicine Hat.
Where did Richard E. Taylor study?
Richard E. Taylor was educated at Stanford University, University of Alberta.

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  1. Wikipedia (English): Richard E. Taylor · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q201470 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Richard E. Taylor.jpg by ENERGY.GOV (Public domain)

Last updated · facts checked 5 November 2026

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