Richard E. Taylor's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

In the record

Richard Edward Taylor (2 November 1929 – 22 February 2018), was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor. The birth-card coordinate for November 2 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1990 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1990 The Nobel Prize in Physics — 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

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

Richard E. Taylor's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Richard E. Taylor. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.

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Richard E. Taylor in the public record

He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "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." Taylor was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta. He studied for his BSc (1950) and MSc (1952) degrees at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Newly married, he applied to work for a PhD degree at Stanford University, where he joined the High Energy Physics Laboratory. His PhD thesis was on an experiment using polarised gamma rays to study pion production. After three years at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and a year at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, Taylor returned to Stanford. Construction of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (now the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) was beginning. In collaboration with researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Taylor worked on the design and construction of the equipment, and was involved in many of the experiments. In 1971, Taylor was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship that allowed him to spend a sabbatical year at CERN.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Richard E. Taylor (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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Richard Edward Taylor (2 November 1929 – 22 February 2018), was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor.

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Also on the record

1. The experiments run at SLAC in the late 1960s and early 1970s involved scattering high-energy beams of electrons from protons and deuterons and heavier nuclei.
2. At lower energies, it had already been found that the electrons would only be scattered through low angles, consistent with the idea that the nucleons had no internal structure.
3. However, the SLAC-MIT experiments showed that higher energy electrons could be scattered through much higher angles, with the loss of some energy.
4. These deep inelastic scattering results provided the first experimental evidence that the protons and neutrons were made up of point-like particles, later identified to be the up and down quarks that had previously been proposed on theoretical grounds.

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• Edward V. Appleton — 1947 Physics
• Ernest Lawrence — 1939 Physics
• F.W. de Klerk — 1993 Peace
• Fritz Lipmann — 1953 Physiology or Medicine
• George F. Smoot — 2006 Physics
• Jane Addams — 1931 Peace
• 16 more laureates share this card.

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What is Richard E. Taylor's birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. November 2 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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