In which year did Henry Way Kendall win the Nobel Prize?
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Answer
Henry Way Kendall was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 for his groundbreaking research on the structure of nucleons, the fundamental building blocks of atomic nuclei. His work, conducted alongside Jerome Friedman and Richard Taylor, involved scattering high-energy electrons off protons and neutrons, revealing their internal structure and the presence of quarks, the fundamental particles that make up nucleons.
Probing the Particles: The Legacy of Henry Way Kendall
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