Friedman, Jerome I.

Friedman, Jerome I. (Isaac)

(1930– ) physicist; born in Chicago, Ill. He taught at the University of Chicago (1956–57) and Stanford University (1957–60) before joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1960). He was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in physics (with R. E. Taylor and H. W. Kendall) for experiments (1967–73) confirming the existence of the quark.