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Henry Way Kendall

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Also known as Henry Kendall, Henry W. Kendall

American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Henry Way Kendall was an American physicist, mountaineer, and university teacher. Born in Boston in 1926, he was educated at Amherst College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Deerfield Academy, and the United States Merchant Marine Academy. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree and worked as a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His doctoral advisor was Martin Deutsch.

Kendall received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award, and the Panofsky Prize. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences. He spoke English.

Kendall died accidentally in Wakulla County in 1999 due to drowning. His work is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1990

    “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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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Kendall
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Boston
Place of death
Wakulla County
Occupation
university teacher
Educated at
United States Merchant Marine Academy
Employer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
Martin Deutsch
Field of work
physics
Sport
mountaineering
Image
Henry Kendall by Tom Frost crop.jpg
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Henry Kendall
date of birth
1926-12-09
date of death
1999-02-15
member of
National Academy of Sciences
Erdős number
5
manner of death
accidental death
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) 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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