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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 Friedman, Jerome Isaac (frēd`mən), 1930–, American physicist, b. Chicago, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1956.
..... Click the link for more information. and Richard 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.
..... Click the link for more information. for a series of experiments (1967–73) that showed that the fundamental particles of matter are not protons and neutrons, but smaller particles known as quarks (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 .
..... Click the link for more information. ). As the founder and chair of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Kendall was openly critical in the 1980s of the Strategic Defense Initiative Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), U.S. government program responsible for research and development of a space-based system to defend the nation from attack by strategic ballistic missiles (see guided missile ).
..... Click the link for more information. , or "Star Wars," antimissile project.