Jerome Friedman
1930-
American physicist whose work in particle physics led to the discovery of quarks, for which he shared the 1990 Nobel Prize for Physics. Until Friedman's experiments in the...
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Jerome Friedman shared the 1990 Nobel Prize for physics with physicists Henry Kendall and Richard Taylor for the trio's research leading to the discovery of quarks--supercharged subatomic particles fo...
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Jerome Friedman was born in Chicago on March 28, 1930, the younger of two sons of Selig and Lillian Warsaw Friedman. Selig Friedman had immigrated to the United States in 1913. Friedman's early intere...
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