Richard Taylor | |
|---|---|
 Taylor in 1967 | |
| Born | Richard Edward Taylor 2 November 1929 Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada |
| Died | 22 February 2018 (aged 88) Stanford, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | |
| Awards |
|
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Particle physics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Positive pion production by polarised bremsstrahlung (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert F. Mozley |
Richard Edward Taylor, CC FRS FRSC (2 November 1929 – 22 February 2018),[2] was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor.[3] 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."[4][5][6]
- ^ "Professor Richard Taylor FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 21 October 2015.
- ^ Breidenbach, Martin; Prescott, Charles (June 2018). "Richard Taylor 1929-2018". CERN Courier. 58 (5): 41–42. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
- ^ Richard E. Taylor on Nobelprize.org
- ^ Nobel prize citation
- ^ Taylor, R. E. "Nucleon Form Factors above 6 GeV", Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission), (Sept. 1967).
- ^ Taylor, R. E. "The Discovery of the Point Like Structure of Matter", Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), United States Department of Energy--Office of Energy Research, (Sept. 2000).
