Jerome Friedman to give Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lectures

The 1997 Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lecture will be presented on the evening of Monday, February 24, '97, by Prof. Jerome Friedman of MIT. Prof. Friedman shared the 1990 Nobel Prize with SLAC's Richard Taylor and MIT's Henry Kendall for research on inelastic scateering from protons and neutrons, which provided the first direct evidence of the quark sub-structure of the nucleon. Prof. Friedman will also give the regular Physics/Applied Physics Colloquium on Feb. 25 at 4:00 in Varian Physics Rm. 101).

Prof. Friedman worked with Prof. Hofstadter at the High Energy Physics Laboratory from 1957 to 1960 before accepting a faculty position at MIT. The title of Prof. Friedman's evening lecture will be "Are We Really Made of Quarks?". He will also give the regular Physics/Applied Physics colloquium the following afternoon (Tuesday, February 25), with a title to be announced later. Questions concerning the Hofstadter lecture should be referred to Jenifer Conan-Tice at 415-723-4347.

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