Jerome Isaac Friedman

Sixteen years after the J psi discovery in nineteen ninety, the Nobel Committee handed out more prizes.

This time, it was split three ways between Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall, and Richard Taylor 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.

Fourteen years after that in two thousand four, David Gross, David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek were awarded the prize for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.

Gross, looking back on the discovery years later, was candid about how close the field had come to missing it entirely.