Jerome Isaac Friedman
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| Born | 28 March 1930 Chicago, Illinois |
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| Nationality | American |
| Institution | MIT |
| Alma mater | Chicago |
| Academic advisor | Enrico Fermi |
| Known for | Experimental proof of quarks |
| Notable prizes | Nobel Prize in Physics (1990) |
Jerome Isaac Friedman (born March 28, 1930) is an American physicist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois to parents who emigrated to the US from Russia, and excelled particularly in art while growing up. He became interested in physics after reading a book on relativity by Albert Einstein, and as a result he turned down a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago to study physics at the University of Chicago. While there he worked under Enrico Fermi, and eventually received his Ph.D. in physics in 1956.
He co-discovered experimental evidence of quarks. He won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Friedman is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists[1].
[edit] External links
- Nobel Autobiography
- Friedman page at MIT
- their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons
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