Richard Taylor

SLAC Faculty

Courtesy Professor, Physics

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1990 Nobel Prize

Career History 

• Lewis M. Terman Professor, Engineering 
• B.Sc., University of Alberta, Canada, 1950 
• M.Sc., University of Alberta, Canada, 1952 
• Ph.D., Stanford University, 1962 
• Boursier, Laboratoire de l/Accelerateur Lineare, Orsay, France, 1958-1961 
• Physicist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1961-1962 
• Experimental Physicist, SLAC, 1962-196 
• Associate Professor, SLAC, 1968-1970 
• Professor, SLAC, 1970-present 
• Associate Directory, Research Division, Slac, 1982-1986 
• Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, 1982 
• W.K.H. Panofsky Prize, 1989 
• Nobel Prize in Physics, 1990 
• Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation, 1971-1972 
• Fellow, American Physical Society 
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 
• Fellow, Royal Society of Canada 
• Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 
• Member, Canadian Association of Physicists 
• Foreign Associate, National Academy of Science 

Research Interests

Experimental particle physics, electron scattering; engaged in H1 experiment at the HERA electron-positron collider in Hamburg, Germany; gravitational wave research and space-based studies of x-ray and gamma-ray astronomy.