Jerome Friedman
- Born: March 28, 1930 (Chicago, Illinois)
Education
- 1950: BA, University of Chicago
- 1956: PhD, University of Chicago (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1956–1957: University of Chicago, Research Associate in Physics
- 1957–1960: Stanford University, Research Associate, High Energy Physics Laboratory
- 1960–1967: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1967–1988: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor of Physics
- 1988–1990: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, William A. Coolidge Professor
- 1990–present: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute Professor
- 2005–present: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emeritus Professor of Physics
Other Positions
- 1980–1983: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director, Nuclear Science Laboratory
- 1983–1988: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Head, Department of Physics
- 1999–1999: American Physical Society, President
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1977–1983: Vice President and Member, Board of Trustees, Universities Research Association, Inc.
- 1988–1992: Member, High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, United States Department of Energy
- 1989–1993: Chair, Science Policy Committee, Superconducting Super Collider
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1989: American Physical Society, W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
- 1990: Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1992: National Academy of Sciences, Member
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
Jerome Friedman, "Deep-Inelastic Scattering and the Discovery of Quarks," in The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s, ed. Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown, Michael Riordan, and Max Dresden (New York: Cambridge University Press: 1997), 566-588
