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Friedman, Jerome Isaac

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Friedman, Jerome Isaac (frēd`mən), 1930–, American physicist, b. Chicago, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1956. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Friedman won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard E. Taylor Taylor, Richard E., 1930–, Canadian physicist. A professor at Stanford Univ., Taylor won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry W.
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 and Henry W. Kendall Kendall, Henry Way, 1926–99, American physicist. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kendall won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Richard Taylor for a series of experiments (1967–73) that showed that the
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 for a series of experiments (1967–73) that showed that protons and neutrons are not fundamental particles of matter but are composed of smaller particles known as quarks. This evidence allowed scientists to develop the Standard Model theory of matter, which states that all matter is made up of combinations of six quarks and six leptons that interact with five types of force particles (see elementary particles elementary particles, the most basic physical constituents of the universe. Basic Constituents of Matter


Molecules are built up from the atom, which is the basic unit of any chemical element.
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