Richard E. Taylor

Richard Edward Taylor, CC, FRS, FRSC ( born November 2, 1929 in Medicine Hat, Alberta ) is a Canadian physicist and Nobel Prize winner of 1990. He is professor emeritus at Stanford University.

Life

Taylor continued his studies in physics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton through. In 1950 he received the bachelor's, master's degree in 1952. In 1952 he went for graduate study by Stanford. From 1954 to 1958 he worked in the Laboratory for High Energy Physics from 1958 to 1961 in France at the under construction linear accelerator in Orsay. In 1962 he received his doctorate at Stanford.

Taylor began in 1961 as a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, in 1962, he returned to Stanford and took part in the construction of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He was appointed to the faculty there in 1968. 1971-1972 Taylor worked by a Guggenheim Fellowship at CERN in Geneva, after which he again worked at Stanford.

In 1981 he went to the DESY in Hamburg with an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. Until 1989 he was a consultant for the LEP at CERN.

From 1982 to 1987 Taylor was Associate Director of Research at the SLAC. He belongs to the American Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada and holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Paris, Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge. In 1990, Taylor, along with the Americans Jerome I. Friedman and Henry W. Kendall the Nobel Prize in Physics for the detection of the substructure of the proton. In 1994 he held the first Wolfgang -Paul- lecture in Bonn.

Work

Taylor is one of the masterminds behind the great advances that have been made at SLAC in experimental nuclear and particle physics. He worked initially with electron and photon beams of elastic and inelastic electron scattering, particularly in terms of parity violation. Later he explored the internal structure of the proton and neutron, which he delivered substantial experimental evidence to establish the quark theory developed by Murray Gell-Mann.

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