Jerome Friedman

Jerome Friedman shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his colleague Richard Taylor for experiments proving that protons, neutrons and the other elementary particles of the atom are made of even more fundamental building blocks, known as quarks. Friedman was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of immigrants from Russia. As a young person, he excelled at art rather than science, but his interest in physics was piqued by reading a book by Albert Ein...Read More

Jerome Friedman shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his colleague Richard Taylor for ex...Read More