Henry Way Kendall

Who is this?

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."

Career

1. 1926
   Born
2. 1981
   Won Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
3. 1989
   Won Panofsky Prize
4. 1990
   Won Nobel Prize in Physics
5. 1999
   Passed away
6. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
7. Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science
8. Member of American Physical Society
9. Won Fellow of the American Physical Society
10. Won Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Boston
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: physicist, mountaineer, university teacher
• •Sport: mountaineering