Richard E. Taylor

Professor Richard E. Taylor, CC , FRS , FRSC , Ph.D , M.Sc , B.Sc (born November 2, 1929 in Medicine Hat, Alberta) is an Canadian-American professor (Emeritus) at Stanford University and the laureate of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Physics. Image File history File links This work is copyrighted. ... Image File history File links This work is copyrighted. ... A professor is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Membership in the Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, awarded to those who adhere to the Orders motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam which means they desire a better country. ... The Royal Society of London is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence and was founded in 1660. ... The Royal Society of Canada, (French: La Société royale du Canada) The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ... November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Medicine Hat is a city of 51,249 (according to the 2001 Statistics Canada census) and is located in the southeastern part of the province of Alberta, Canada. ... A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ...

Education

• B.Sc, 1950; M.Sc, 1952, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
• Ph.D, 1962, Stanford University.

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Awards and Honors

• Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, 1982.
• W.K.H. Panofsky Prize, 1989.
• Nobel Prize in Physics, 1990.
• Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation, 1971 - 1972.
• Fellow, American Physical Society.
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Fellow, Royal Society of Canada.
• Fellow, Royal Society of London.
• Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Member, Canadian Association of Physicists.
• Foreign Associate, National Academy of Science.
• Companion of the Order of Canada, 2005.

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External links

• 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.