Henry Way Kendall
Infobox_Scientist
name=Henry Way Kendall
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birth_date = birth date|1926|12|9|df=y
birth_place =Boston, Massachusetts
death_date = Death date and age|1999|2|15|1926|12|9|df=yes
death_place=Wakulla Springs State Park ,Florida
alma_mater =Amherst College ,MIT
nationality =United States
field=Physicist
prizes=Nobel Prize in Physics (1990)
work_institution =MIT
doctoral_advisor =Martin Deutsch
spouse=
children=
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footnotes=Henry Way Kendall (
December 9 ,1926 –February 15 ,1999 ) was an American physicist.He was born in
Boston and attendedDeerfield Academy and laterAmherst College . He taught for much of his career at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology .He was the recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly withJerome Isaac Friedman andRichard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering ofelectron s onproton s and boundneutron s, which have been of essential importance for the development of thequark model in particle physics."Kendall was not only a very accomplished physicist, but also a very skilled mountaineer and photographer. He was also one of the founding members of the
Union of Concerned Scientists . He was active throughout much of his life to advance the causes of UCS. He was particularly interested in the Energy Problem and Nuclear Proliferation.He died in Wakulla Springs State Park, Florida while photographing an underwater cave system.
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MIT Physics Department External links
* [http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/friedman_taylor_kendall.html Photograph, Biography and Bibliographic Resources] , from the
Office of Scientific and Technical Information ,United States Department of Energy
* [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1999/kendall.html Obituary of Henry Kendall from the MIT News Office]
* [http://web.mit.edu/physics MIT Physics Department website]
* [http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4704.html Oral History interview transcript with Henry Way Kendall 25 and 26 November 1986, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives]Persondata
NAME= Kendall, Henry Way
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH=9 December 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH=Boston, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH=15 February 1999
PLACE OF DEATH=Wakulla Springs State Park ,Florida
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