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Richard E. Taylor
Canadian physicist (1929-2018) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the British mathematician, see Richard Taylor (mathematician).
For the American Confederate general, see Richard Taylor (general).
Richard Edward Taylor (2 November 1929 – 22 February 2018) was a Nobel Prize–winning Canadian professor emeritus at Stanford University.[2]
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Born | Richard Edward Taylor (1929-11-02)2 November 1929 |
Died | 22 February 2018(2018-02-22) (aged 88) |
Nationality | Canadian |
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Fields | Particle physics |
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Thesis | Positive pion production by polarised bremsstrahlung (1962) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert F. Mozley[source?] |
Website | physics |
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In 1990, he shared the 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."[3][4][5][6][7]
Taylor died at his home in Stanford, California on 22 February 2018 at the age of 88.[8]