Richard E. Taylor

For the British mathematician, see Richard Taylor (mathematician).

For the American Confederate general, see Richard Taylor (general).

Richard Edward Taylor (2 November 1929 – 22 February 2018) was a Nobel Prize–winning Canadian professor emeritus at Stanford University.

Richard E. Taylor
Born	Richard Edward Taylor (1929-11-02)2 November 1929 Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Died	22 February 2018(2018-02-22) (aged 88) Stanford, California, United States
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Stanford University University of Alberta
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1990) FRS (1997)
Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics
Institutions	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory École Normale Supérieure
Thesis	Positive pion production by polarised bremsstrahlung (1962)
Doctoral advisor	Robert F. Mozley
Website	physics.stanford.edu/people/faculty/richard-taylor

In 1990, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics."

Taylor died at his home in Stanford, California on 22 February 2018 at the age of 88.

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