Richard E. Taylor (1929-2018)

Awarded the Prize “for his pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics.”

Canadian physicist. Taylor was born at Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada on November 2, 1929. He was admitted to the University of Alberta in Edmonton gained his ’s degree there in 1952. He received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1962. He worked for a year at the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, from 1962 to 1968 he was a staff member at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Taylor became Associate Professor at Stanford in 1968 a full professor in 1970. Taylor died on February 22, 2018 in Stanford, California, USA.