Richard E. Taylor

Also known as Richard Edward Taylor, Richard Taylor

Canadian physicist (1929-2018)

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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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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: Canada
Active from: 1929
Active to: 2018

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The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 61,766x
The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 58,211x
Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 46,827x
ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 46,241x
Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 45,540x

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date of birth: 1929-11-02
Erdős number: 5
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date of death: 2018-02-22

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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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