Henry Way Kendall

Henry Way Kendall (1926 to 1999) was an American particle physicist who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Richard Taylor for experiments on deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, work that gave the first experimental evidence that protons and neutrons contain point-like particles later identified as quarks. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1961 until his death. Away from the laboratory he was a very skilled mountaineer and photographer: he did extensive rock climbing in Yosemite Valley and then went on expeditions to the Andes, the Himalaya and Antarctica, photographing them with large format cameras, and the American Alpine Club inducted him into its Hall of Mountaineering Excellence in 2012. He also co-authored books on shallow water diving and underwater photography, and he died in 1999 while diving the cave at Wakulla Springs State Park in Florida.