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Richard E. Taylor

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Also known as Richard Edward Taylor, Richard Taylor

Canadian physicist (1929-2018)

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Richard E. Taylor (1929–2018) was a Canadian physicist and university teacher. Born in Medicine Hat, he was educated at the University of Alberta and Stanford University. His professional career included positions at Stanford University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and École Normale Supérieure. He worked in the field of physics and spoke English.

Taylor received the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Panofsky Prize. He was a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He died in Stanford in 2018.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1990

    “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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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Edward
Family name
Taylor
Gender
male
Citizenship
Canada
Place of birth
Medicine Hat
Place of death
Stanford
Occupation
university teacher
Educated at
University of Alberta
Employer
École Normale Supérieure
Languages spoken
English language
Award
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Field of work
physics
Image
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member of
American Physical Society
date of birth
1929-11-02
Erdős number
5
Commons category
Richard E. Taylor
date of death
2018-02-22
different from
Richard Taylor
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

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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