Who were Taylor's companions in winning the Nobel Prize?
Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow
Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall
Wolfgang Pauli, Hideki Yukawa
None of the above
Answer
Taylor won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall for their work in discovering deep inelastic scattering. They found that the proton, the basic particle of the atomic nucleus, is not a solid ball but rather is made up of smaller particles, called quarks.
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