Jerome Isaac Friedman

Jerome Isaac Friedman ( born March 28, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American physicist. In 1990 he received along with Richard E. Taylor and Henry W. Kendall the Nobel Prize in physics for experiments of deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and neutrons, performed in the late 1960s. These provided the experimental confirmation of the quark model, after which the core particles of point-like particles are smaller.

Friedman, the son of Russian -born immigrants wanted to study art, first and already had a scholarship, but then switched to physics, which he studied at the University of Chicago still at Enrico Fermi ( master's degree in 1953, PhD 1956). In 1957, he joined as Taylor and Kendall the group of Robert Hofstadter at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center ( SLAC ), where he also participated with Wolfgang Panofsky in the development of electron accelerators and later the Nobel Prize - winning work with his two colleagues, Kendall and Taylor executed. From 1960 he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was in 1980 director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Physics ( Nuclear Studies) and from 1983 to 1988 head of the physics faculty.

In 1989 he was awarded the Panofsky Prize with Kendall and Taylor.