- Richard E. Taylor
Infobox Scientist
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name = Richard Edward Taylor
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1929|11|2
birth_place = Medicine Hat,Alberta
fields = Particle physics
workplaces = SLAC
LBLÉcole Normale Supérieure
alma_mater = StanfordUniversity of Alberta
doctoral_advisor = Robert F. Mozley
awards =Nobel Prize in Physics (1990)Richard Edward Taylor, CC, FRS, FRSC,
Ph.D. , M.Sc, B.Sc (bornNovember 2 ,1929 inMedicine Hat, Alberta ) is a Canadian-American professor (Emeritus ) atStanford University . In 1990, he shared theNobel Prize for Physics withJerome Friedman andHenry 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".Education
*B.Sc, 1950; M.Sc, 1952,
University of Alberta ,Edmonton, Canada .
*Ph.D, 1962,Stanford University .Awards and Honors
*Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, 1982.
*W.K.H. Panofsky Prize, 1989.
*Nobel Prize in Physics , 1990.
*Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation, 1971 - 1972.
*Fellow, American Physical Society.
*Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
*Fellow,Royal Society of Canada .
*Fellow,Royal Society of London.
*Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
*Member, Canadian Association of Physicists.
*Foreign Associate, National Academy of Science.
*Companion of theOrder of Canada , 2005.Publications
*Taylor, R. E. [http://www.osti.gov/cgi-bin/rd_accomplishments/display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0171&numPages=25&fp=N "Nucleon Form Factors above 6 GeV"] ,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC),United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency theAtomic Energy Commission ), (Sept. 1967).
*Taylor, R. E. [http://www.osti.gov/cgi-bin/rd_accomplishments/display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0172&numPages=18&fp=N "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).External links
* [http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/friedman_taylor_kendall.html Biography and Bibliographic Resources] , from the
Office of Scientific and Technical Information ,United States Department of Energy
* [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1990/taylor-speech.html Nobel speech]
* [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1990/taylor-autobio.html Nobel autobiography]
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