Jerome Isaac Friedman

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Jerome Isaac Friedman (born March 28, 1930 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American physicist . In 1990 , together with Richard E. Taylor and Henry W. Kendall, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments on deep inelastic scattering of electrons by protons and neutrons , carried out in the late 1960s. These provided the experimental confirmation of the quark model , according to which the core particles consist of point-like smaller particles.

Friedman, the son of immigrants of Russian origin, initially wanted to study art and already had a scholarship , but then switched to physics, which he studied at the University of Chicago with Enrico Fermi (master's degree in 1953, doctorate in 1956). In 1957, like Taylor and Kendall, he joined Robert Hofstadter's group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), where he also participated with Wolfgang Panofsky in the development of electron accelerators and later carried out the Nobel Prize-winning work with his two colleagues Kendall and Taylor . From 1960 he worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he was director of the laboratory for nuclear physics (Nuclear Studies) in 1980 and head of the physics faculty from 1983 to 1988.

In 1980 he was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1992 to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2002 he became an elected member of the American Philosophical Society . He has been an external member of the Academia Europaea since 2017 . In 1989 he received the Panofsky Prize with Kendall and Taylor .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter F. (PDF; 815 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved January 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ Member Directory: Jerome I. Friedman. National Academy of Sciences, accessed January 17, 2018 .
  3. ^ Member History: Jerome I. Friedman. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Friedman, Jerome Isaac
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois