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Jerome Isaac Friedman

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Jerome Isaac Friedman

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Also known as Jerome Friedman, Jerome I. Friedman

American physicist

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Jerome Isaac Friedman was an American physicist who made significant contributions to understanding the structure of matter. His work helped advance fundamental physics research during the twentieth century.

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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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Instance of
human
Given name
Jerome
Family name
Friedman
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Chicago
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
atheism
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
Enrico Fermi
Student of
Enrico Fermi
Field of work
physics
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Jerry Friedman in Valencia, Rey Jaime event, June 2016.jpg
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date of birth
1930-03-28
Erdős number
5
Commons category
Jerome Isaac Friedman
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Jerome Isaac Friedman (born March 28, 1930) is an American physicist. He is institute professor and professor of physics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Henry Kendall and Richard 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.", work which showed an internal structure for protons later known to be quarks. Friedman sits on the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Life and career

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