Today is the birthday of Nobel laureate Henry Kendall, who was born in Boston in 1926. Kendall earned a PhD at MIT in experimental particle physics. After working at Brookhaven National Lab and Stanford University, he returned to MIT, where he was part of the Stanford–MIT team that found decisive experimental evidence for quarks. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Richard Taylor for that discovery. Kendall helped found the Union of Concerned Scientists in 1969. He was also a keen mountain climber and underwater photographer. (Photo credit: Tom Frost, CC BY-SA 3.0)
