Henry W. Kendall

Henry W. Kendall

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nobel Laureate in Physics (1990)

Professional bio

Henry W. Kendall was an American physicist. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which were of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics. He was affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.