Henry Way Kendall

American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Henry Way Kendall
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Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American particle physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor for their works on the scattering of electrons on protons and the creation of the quark model in particle physics.[1]

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Kendall was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at Amherst College and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kendall died, aged 72, while diving the cave at the Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park in Wakulla County, Florida on February 15, 1999.[2] He ran out of oxygen while ignoring safety protocols, which his autopsy found to be on purpose because of a physiological issue.[3]

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