Richard E. Taylor

Richard E.
Taylor
Richard Edward Taylor, CC FRS FRSC (2 November
1929 – 22 February 2018),[2] was a Canadian physicist
Richard Taylor
CC FRS FRSC
and Stanford University professor.[3] He shared the
1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman
and Henry Kendall "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."[4][5][6]
Early life Taylor in 1967
Taylor was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta. He studied Born Richard Edward Taylor
for his BSc (1950) and MSc (1952) degrees at the 2 November 1929
University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Newly Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
married, he applied to work for a PhD degree at Died 22 February 2018 (aged 88)
Stanford University, where he joined the High Energy Stanford, California, U.S.
Physics Laboratory.[7] Alma mater University of Alberta (BSc, MSc)
His PhD thesis was on an experiment using polarised Stanford University (PhD)
gamma rays to study pion production.[8] Awards Nobel Prize in Physics (1990)
FRS (1997)[1]
Research and career Scientific career

Fields Particle physics
After three years at the École Normale Supérieure in Institutions Stanford Linear Accelerator
Paris and a year at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Center
in California, Taylor returned to Stanford.[9]
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Construction of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
École Normale Supérieure
(now the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) was
beginning.[10] In collaboration with researchers from Thesis Positive pion production by
the California Institute of Technology and the polarised bremsstrahlung (http://
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Taylor worked www.worldcat.org/oclc/3865702
on the design and construction of the equipment, and 3) (1962)
was involved in many of the experiments.[10] Doctoral Robert F. Mozley
advisor
In 1971, Taylor was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship
that allowed him to spend a sabbatical year at
CERN.[3]
The experiments run at SLAC in the late 1960s and early 1970s involved scattering high-energy beams of
electrons from protons and deuterons and heavier nuclei.[11][12][13] At lower energies, it had already been
found that the electrons would only be scattered through low angles, consistent with the idea that the
nucleons had no internal structure.[13] However, the SLAC-MIT experiments showed that higher energy
electrons could be scattered through much higher angles, with the loss of some energy.[13] These deep
inelastic scattering results provided the first experimental evidence that the protons and neutrons were
made up of point-like particles, later identified to be the up and down quarks that had previously been
proposed on theoretical grounds.[10] The experiments also provided the first evidence for the existence of
gluons. Taylor, Friedman and Kendall were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in 1990 for this work.[14]
Death
Taylor died at his home in Stanford, California near the campus of Stanford University on 22 February
2018 at the age of 88.[10][15]
Awards and honours

Taylor has received numerous awards and honours including:
Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, 1982.[16]

W.K.H. Panofsky Prize, 1989.[17]
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1990.[10]
Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement, 1991.[18]
Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation, 1971 – 1972.[10]
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1986.[9]
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.[19]
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1997[1]
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada.[10]
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[19]
Member, Canadian Association of Physicists.[19]
Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences.[19]
Companion of the Order of Canada, 2005.[10]
In popular culture
In May 2019, the announcement of the 1990 Nobel Prize for physics was featured on the season 2 finale
of the TV series Young Sheldon. "A Swedish Science Thing and the Equation for Toast" featured Sheldon
Cooper as a child, listening to a short wave radio as the Nobel Prize was announced in Sweden.
References
1. "Professor Richard Taylor FRS" (https://web.archive.org/web/20151021075012/https://royals
ociety.org/people/richard-taylor-12395/). London: Royal Society. Archived from the original
(https://royalsociety.org/people/richard-taylor-12395/) on 21 October 2015.
2. Breidenbach, Martin; Prescott, Charles (June 2018). "Richard Taylor 1929-2018" (https://cd
s.cern.ch/record/2320186). CERN Courier. 58 (5): 41–42. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
3. Richard E. Taylor (https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/140) on Nobelprize.org
4. Nobel prize citation (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1990/)
5. Taylor, R. E. "Nucleon Form Factors above 6 GeV" (https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4572534-nucl
eon-form-factors-above-gev), Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), United States
Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission), (Sept.
1967).
6. Taylor, R. E. "The Discovery of the Point Like Structure of Matter" (https://www.osti.gov/bibli
o/765018-discovery-point-like-structure-matter), Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC),
United States Department of Energy--Office of Energy Research, (Sept. 2000).
7. Taylors Nobel banquet speech (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1990/ta
ylor-speech.html)
8. Taylor, Richard Edward (1962). Positive pion production by polarized bremsstrahlung (PhD
thesis). Stanford University. OCLC 38657023 (https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/38657023).
9. Biography and Bibliographic Resources (https://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/friedman_ta
ylor_kendall.html), from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States
Department of Energy
10. "Richard E. Taylor, Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Who Helped Discover Quarks, Dies at 88"
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/richard-taylor-nobel-winning-physicist-who
-helped-discover-quarks-dies-at-88/2018/02/24/3a7c8bda-18ea-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_
story.html). The Washington Post. 25 February 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
11. Richard E. Taylor's publications (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=740576
0718) indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
12. Prescott, C.Y.; Atwood, W.B.; Cottrell, R.L.A.; DeStaebler, H.; Garwin, Edward L.; Gonidec,
A.; Miller, R.H.; Rochester, L.S.; Sato, T.; Sherden, D.J.; Sinclair, C.K.; Stein, S.; Taylor,
R.E.; Clendenin, J.E.; Hughes, V.W.; Sasao, N.; Schüler, K.P.; Borghini, M.G.; Lübelsmeyer,
K.; Jentschke, W. (1978). "Parity non-conservation in inelastic electron scattering". Physics
Letters B. 77 (3): 347–352. Bibcode:1978PhLB...77..347P (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/ab
s/1978PhLB...77..347P). doi:10.1016/0370-2693(78)90722-0 (https://doi.org/10.1016%2F03
70-2693%2878%2990722-0). ISSN 0370-2693 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0370-2693).
OSTI 1446939 (https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1446939).
13. Bloom, E. D.; Coward, D. H.; DeStaebler, H.; Drees, J.; Miller, G.; Mo, L. W.; Taylor, R. E.;
Breidenbach, M.; Friedman, J. I.; Hartmann, G. C.; Kendall, H. W. (1969). "High-Energy
Inelastice−pScattering at 6° and 10°" (https://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevLett.23.930).
Physical Review Letters. 23 (16): 930–934. Bibcode:1969PhRvL..23..930B (https://ui.adsab
s.harvard.edu/abs/1969PhRvL..23..930B). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.23.930 (https://doi.org/
10.1103%2FPhysRevLett.23.930). ISSN 0031-9007 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0031-9
007).
14. Nobel prize press release (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1990/press.h
tml)
15. McClain, Dylan Loeb (2 March 2018). "Richard E. Taylor, Nobel Winner Who Plumbed
Matter, is Dead at 88" (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/obituaries/richard-e-taylor-nobe
l-winner-who-plumbed-matter-dies-at-88.html?mtrref=www.google.se&gwh=390FD1633D61
3D25365CA4B08F051C35&gwt=pay). The New York Times.
16. "Taylor's entry in the SLAC index of faculty" (https://web.archive.org/web/20090517034559/h
ttp://www.slac.stanford.edu/slac/faculty/hepfaculty/taylor.html). Archived from the original (htt
p://www.slac.stanford.edu/slac/faculty/hepfaculty/taylor.html) on 17 May 2009. Retrieved
4 May 2009.
17. "All Prize & Award Recipients" (https://web.archive.org/web/20180226091924/https://www.a
ps.org/programs/honors/recipients.cfm?year=1989). APS.org. Archived from the original (htt
ps://www.aps.org/programs/honors/recipients.cfm?year=1989) on 26 February 2018.
Retrieved 25 February 2018.
18. "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement" (https://achievement.or
g/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration). www.achievement.org. American
Academy of Achievement.
19. "Richard E. Taylor" (http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=225).
science.ca. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
External links
Richard E. Taylor (https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/140) on Nobelprize.org including the
Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1990 Deep Inelastic Scattering: The Early Years
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Early life Taylor in 1967

Research and career Scientific career

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