Richard E. Taylor
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Richard E. Taylor was a Canadian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 for his experiments that provided evidence for the existence of quarks, the fundamental building blocks of matter. His work helped establish the modern understanding of how atoms and subatomic particles are structured, which is central to how physicists explain the physical world today.
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- Born
- 1929-11-02
- Died
- 2018-02-22
- Works
- 3
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5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 61,419x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 57,940x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 46,605x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 46,001x
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Richard Edward Taylor (2 November 1929 – 22 February 2018), 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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1929 births2018 deathsCanadian fellows of the Royal SocietyCanadian Nobel laureatesCanadian physicistsCompanions of the Order of CanadaExperimental physicistsFellows of the American Physical SocietyFellows of the Royal Society of CanadaForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesNobel laureates in PhysicsPeople associated with CERN