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Henry Way Kendall

1926 - 1999

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Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor "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." Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Way Kendall is the 303rd most popular physicist (down from 239th in 2019), the 1,542nd most popular biography from United States (down from 949th in 2019) and the 69th most popular American Physicist.

Henry Way Kendall is most famous for his work in physics, specifically for his work on the Manhattan Project. He was also a professor at MIT and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Henry Way Kendall ranks 303 out of 851. Before him are Carl von Linde, Samuel C. C. Ting, Klaus Hasselmann, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Walter Kohn, and Friedrich Hund. After him are Yuri Oganessian, Anna Mani, Freeman Dyson, Alain Aspect, Rainer Weiss, and Andre Geim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Henry Way Kendall ranks 78. Before him are Yoshio Okada, George Martin, Hilary Putnam, Jorge Medina, György Kurtág, and Andrew Schally. After him are Gyula Grosics, Steve Reeves, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Dennis W. Sciama, Robert Fogel, and Michel Butor. Among people deceased in 1999, Henry Way Kendall ranks 36. Before him are Jerzy Grotowski, Daniel Nathans, Akio Morita, Mary Ainsworth, George C. Scott, and Sarah Knauss. After him are João Figueiredo, Hélder Câmara, Desmond Llewelyn, Dennis W. Sciama, Amintore Fanfani, and Adolfo Bioy Casares.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Way Kendall ranks 1,542 out of 20,380. Before him are Jackie Robinson (1919), Barbara Bel Geddes (1922), Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861), Cesar Chavez (1927), Edith Wharton (1862), and Gary Gilmore (1940). After him are Dennis Rader (1945), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Shia LaBeouf (1986), Harriet Jacobs (1813), Joel Schumacher (1939), and Anjelica Huston (1951).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Henry Way Kendall ranks 69. Before him are William Daniel Phillips (1948), Ash Carter (1954), Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), John Clauser (1942), Harry Daghlian (1921), and Samuel C. C. Ting (1936). After him are John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Steven Chu (1948), Carl Wieman (1951), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), John G. Trump (1907), and Theodore Lyman IV (1874).

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