The 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics was shared by JEROME I FRIEDMAN, HENRY W KENDALL and RICHARD E 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. Read on for the presentation speech and the Prize Lectures.
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