Henry W. Kendall (1926-1999)

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.”

American physicist. Kendall was born on December 9, 1926 in Boston. He entered the US Merchant Marine Academy in the summer of 1945 graduated from Amherst College in 1950. He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954. After working at Stanford University, he moved to MIT as a member of the faculty, becoming full Professor in 1967. Kendall died on Feburary 15, 1999 in Florida of the United States.