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Henry W(ay) Kendall

Physicist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then taught at Stanford (1956–61) before returning to MIT in 1961. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize for Physics with Richard Taylor (1929– ) and Jerome Friedman (1930– ) for their experiments confirming the existence of quarks.

Henry Way Kendall
Born 9 December 1926
Boston, Massachusetts
Died 15 February 1999
Wakulla Springs State Park, Florida
Nationality American
Institution MIT
Alma Mater MIT
Doctoral Advisor Martin Deutsch
Notable Prizes Nobel Prize in Physics (1990)

Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American physicist.

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