Jerome Friedman

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American Nobel laureate in Physics Nobel laureate experimental physicist human physicist

Jerome Friedman is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering experimental work that confirmed the existence of quarks as fundamental constituents of matter.

Aliases (1)

Jerome Isaac Friedman ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American Nobel laureate in Physics → Nobel laureate → experimental physicist → human → physicist →
academicDegree	PhD in physics →
awardReceived	Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award → National Medal of Science → Nobel Prize in Physics →
birthDate	1930-03-28 →
birthPlace	Chicago, Illinois, United States →
contributedTo	quark model of hadrons →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
educatedAt	University of Chicago →
employer	Massachusetts Institute of Technology →
era	20th-century physics → 21st-century physics →
familyName	Friedman →
fieldOfWork	high-energy physics → particle physics →
gender	male →
givenName	Jerome →
knownFor	deep inelastic scattering experiments → experimental confirmation of quarks → work at SLAC on nucleon structure →
languageSpoken	English →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → American Physical Society → National Academy of Sciences →
name	Jerome Isaac Friedman →
nationality	American →
NobelPrize.category	Physics →
NobelPrize.motivation	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 →
NobelPrize.year	1990 →
notableExperiment	electron–proton deep inelastic scattering at SLAC →
occupation	research scientist → university professor →
positionHeld	Institute Professor at MIT →
researchFocus	internal structure of nucleons →
residence	Massachusetts, United States →
sharedNobelPrizeWith	Henry Way Kendall → Richard E. Taylor →
workplace	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Institute Professor at MIT →	hasNotableHolder
Jerome Friedman ("Jerome Isaac Friedman") →	name