Jerome Isaac Friedman

Who is this?

Jerome Isaac Friedman (born March 28, 1930) is an American physicist. He is institute professor and professor of physics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Henry Kendall and Richard 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.", work which showed an internal structure for protons later known to be quarks. Friedman sits on the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Career

1. 1930
   Born
2. 1989
   Won Panofsky Prize
3. 1990
   Won Nobel Prize in Physics
4. 1992
   Member of National Academy of Sciences
5. 2000
   Won President's Medal
6. 2016
   Won Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
7. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
8. Member of American Physical Society

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Chicago
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: physicist, university teacher