Richard Edward Taylor
Richard Edward Taylor , CC , FRS , FRSC (born November 2, 1929 in Medicine Hat , Alberta ; † February 22, 2018 in Stanford , California ) was a Canadian physicist and Nobel Prize winner from 1990. He was a professor at Stanford University .
Life
Taylor completed his physics degree at the University of Alberta in Edmonton . In 1950 he received his bachelor's degree and in 1952 his master's degree. From 1952 he went to Stanford for graduate studies. From 1954 to 1958 he worked there in the laboratory for high-energy physics, from 1958 to 1961 in France on the linear accelerator that is currently being built in Orsay . In 1962 he received his doctorate from Stanford.
In 1961 Taylor began as a research fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley , in 1962 he returned to Stanford and took part in the establishment of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center . In 1968 he was appointed to the faculty there. From 1971 to 1972 Taylor worked on a Guggenheim scholarship at CERN in Geneva , after which he worked again at Stanford.
In 1981 he went to DESY in Hamburg with an Alexander von Humboldt grant . Until 1989 he was a consultant for the LEP at CERN.
From 1982 to 1987, Taylor was the Associate Director of Research at SLAC. In 1986 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1993 . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and, since 1997, the Royal Society in London. He was an honorary doctor from the universities of Paris, Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge. 1990 Taylor received together with the Americans Jerome I. Friedman and Henry W. Kendall the Nobel Prize in Physics for the detection of the substructure of the proton. In 1994 he gave the first Wolfgang Paul lecture in Bonn .
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Taylor was one of the leading figures behind the great advances made at SLAC in experimental nuclear and particle physics . At first he worked with electron and photon beams on elastic and inelastic electron scattering , especially with regard to parity violation . Later he researched the internal structure of protons and neutrons , with which he provided essential experimental findings for establishing the quark theory developed by Murray Gell-Mann .
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1990 award to Richard E. Taylor
- Mel James: Nobel Laureates: Eight Scientific Researchers Who Discovered… Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, archived from the original on May 1, 2006 ; accessed on February 24, 2018 (English).
Individual evidence
- ^ Andrew Myers: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Taylor dies at 88 . Stanford University, February 22, 2018, accessed February 24, 2018.
- ^ Taylor, Richard Edward - Author profile . INSPIRE-HEP . Retrieved July 29, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taylor, Richard Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Medicine Hat , Alberta , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 2018 |
| Place of death | Stanford (California) |