Jerome Isaac Friedman

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name= Jerome Isaac Friedman


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nationality = United States
field = Physics
alma_mater = Chicago
work_institution = MIT
doctoral_advisor=Enrico Fermi
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known_for = Experimental proof of quarks
prizes= Nobel Prize in Physics (1990)
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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 written 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. In 1960 he joined the physics faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 1968-1969, he conducted experiments with Henry W. Kendall at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center which gave the first experimental evidence that protons had an internal structure, later known to be quarks. For this, Friedman and Kendall won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics. 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 [http://www.thebulletin.org] .

Publications

*Friedman, J. I., Kendall, H. W., et al. [http://www.osti.gov/cgi-bin/rd_accomplishments/display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0173&numPages=21&fp=N "Experimental Search for a Heavy Electron"] , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission, (September 1967).
*Friedman, J. I. [http://www.osti.gov/cgi-bin/rd_accomplishments/display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0174&numPages=41&fp=N "Deep Inelastic Electron Scattering: Experimental"] , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission, (October 1971).
*Friedman, J. I., et al. [http://www.osti.gov/cgi-bin/rd_accomplishments/display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0175&numPages=20&fp=N "Neutral-current x-distributions"] , Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michigan State University, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission, (June 1984).

External links

* [http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/friedman_taylor_kendall.html Bibliographic Resources--Development of the Quark] , from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy
* [http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1990/friedman-autobio.html Nobel Autobiography]
* [http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/jerome_friedman.html Friedman page at MIT]
* [http://buzyall.narod.ru/eto/friedman-speech.html their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons]
* [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2001/friedman-0404.html Friedman Explains Role of Quarks in Killian Talk] , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (April 1, 2001)
* [http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-8/iss-6/p22.html Will Innovation Flourish in the Future?] -Opinion by Jerome Friedman, American Institute of Physics

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NAME= Friedman, Jerome Isaac
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= American Physicist
DATE OF BIRTH= 28 March 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH= Chicago, Illinois
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