Richard E. Taylor
Richard Taylor Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada | |
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Died | 22 February 2018 , U.S. | (aged 88)
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Fields | Particle physics |
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Thesis | Positive pion production by polarised bremsstrahlung (1962) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert F. Mozley |
Richard Edward Taylor, CC FRS FRSC (2 November 1929 – 22 February 2018),[2] was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor.[3] He shared the 1990 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."[4][5][6]
Early life
Taylor was born in
His PhD thesis was on an experiment using polarised gamma rays to study pion production.[8]
Research and career
After three years at the
In 1971, Taylor was awarded a
The experiments run at SLAC in the late 1960s and early 1970s involved scattering high-energy beams of
Death
Taylor died at his home in Stanford, California near the campus of Stanford University on 22 February 2018 at the age of 88.[10][15]
Awards and honours
Taylor has received numerous awards and honours including:
- Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, 1982.[16]
- W.K.H. Panofsky Prize, 1989.[17]
- Nobel Prize in Physics, 1990.[10]
- Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement, 1991.[18]
- Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation, 1971 – 1972.[10]
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1986.[9]
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.[19]
- Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1997[1]
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada.[10]
- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[19]
- Member, Canadian Association of Physicists.[19]
- Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences.[19]
- Companion of the Order of Canada, 2005.[10]
In popular culture
In May 2019, the announcement of the 1990 Nobel Prize for physics was featured on the season 2 finale of the TV series Young Sheldon. "A Swedish Science Thing and the Equation for Toast" featured Sheldon Cooper as a child, listening to a short wave radio as the Nobel Prize was announced in Sweden.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b "Professor Richard Taylor FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 21 October 2015.
- ^ Breidenbach, Martin; Prescott, Charles (June 2018). "Richard Taylor 1929-2018". CERN Courier. 58 (5): 41–42. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
- ^ a b Richard E. Taylor on Nobelprize.org
- ^ Nobel prize citation
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission), (Sept. 1967).
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), United States Department of Energy--Office of Energy Research, (Sept. 2000).
- ^ Taylors Nobel banquet speech
- OCLC 38657023.
- ^ a b Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Richard E. Taylor, Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Who Helped Discover Quarks, Dies at 88". The Washington Post. 25 February 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ Richard E. Taylor's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- OSTI 1446939.
- ^ ISSN 0031-9007.
- ^ Nobel prize press release
- ^ McClain, Dylan Loeb (2 March 2018). "Richard E. Taylor, Nobel Winner Who Plumbed Matter, is Dead at 88". The New York Times.
- ^ "Taylor's entry in the SLAC index of faculty". Archived from the original on 17 May 2009. Retrieved 4 May 2009.
- ^ "All Prize & Award Recipients". APS.org. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- American Academy of Achievement.
- ^ a b c d "Richard E. Taylor". science.ca. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
External links
- Richard E. Taylor on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1990 Deep Inelastic Scattering: The Early Years