University of Alberta's only Nobel laureate remembered - Edmonton - CBC News
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The University of Alberta is mourning physicist Richard Taylor, an alumnus who won a Nobel Prize for groundbreaking research that proved the existence of subatomic particles called quarks for the first time.
"In physics, it's one of the biggest results ever," said Jim Pinfold, a physics professor at University of Alberta who knew Taylor personally.
"The fact that he managed to explain what made up most of the matter in the universe, it's just absolutely incredible.
"This rather humble native son of Alberta."
Taylor died at his home in California near the Stanford University campus on Feb 22. He was 88. ...”
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