What prestigious award did Richard E. Taylor win in 1990?
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Richard E. Taylor won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 for his work on deep inelastic scattering, which led to the discovery of quarks. Taylor was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1929. He studied physics at Princeton University and then worked as a research physicist at Stanford University. In the 1960s, Taylor and his colleagues developed a new technique for studying the structure of protons and neutrons.
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