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What is Richard E. Taylor famous for?

  • Discovering the electron

  • Studies in Quantum Mechanics

  • Pioneering investigations in particle physics

  • Solving the Schrödinger equation

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Richard E. Taylor is a Canadian physicist who is best known for his pioneering investigations in particle physics. He was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990, along with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall, for their work on deep inelastic scattering. This work led to the development of the quark model of the proton and neutron, and provided important insights into the structure of the nucleus.
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