When did Henry Way Kendall pass away?
February 15, 1999
March 10, 2000
January 5, 1998
April 20, 1997
Answer
Henry Way Kendall, an American physicist known for his work on the quark model, passed away on February 15, 1999. His contributions to the understanding of the fundamental structure of matter earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990, shared with Jerome Friedman and Richard Taylor. Kendall's research focused on deep inelastic scattering experiments, which provided crucial evidence for the existence of quarks within protons and neutrons.
Probing the Particles: The Legacy of Henry Way Kendall
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