What was Richard E. Taylor's investigation that earned him the Nobel?
Deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons
The dual nature of light
The wave-particle duality of matter
The theory of relativity
Answer
Richard E. Taylor was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 for his work in deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons. This work was done in collaboration with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Henry Kendall, and it helped to confirm the existence of quarks, which are the fundamental particles that make up protons and neutrons.
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