Henry Kendall
Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was a Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist and an ardent advocate for environmental causes. He enrolled in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1945 and served on a troop transport ship on the North Atlantic. Kendall graduated from Amherst in 1950 and while in college operated a diving and marine salvage company during two summers and co-authored books on diving and underwater photography. He obtained his doctorate in nuclear and atomic physics from MIT and then spent five years at Stanford in the late 1950s and early 1960s, studying the structure of protons and neutrons. Kendall returned to the MIT Physics Department, where he remained the rest of his life. In the early 1970s, he worked in collaboration with researchers Jerome Friedman and Richard Taylor on experiments that demonstrated the first experimental evidence that the protons and neutrons were made up of point-like particles, later identified to be the up and down quark