Guide to the Richard E. Taylor papers SC1495
Claudia Willett, Hanna Ahn
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
September 2022
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Richard E. Taylor papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC1495
Physical Description:
5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1949-2001
Physical Location: Special Collections
and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36-48 hours in
advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website.
Physical Location: Special Collections and University
Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged at least 36 hours in
advance.
Biographical / Historical
Richard Edward Taylor, a professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University and SLAC
National Accelerator Laboratory, was an early user of the 2-mile-long linear accelerator at
SLAC and carried out experiments that revealed subatomic particles called quarks for the
first time – a discovery that earned him the Nobel Prize in physics along with colleagues
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taylor passed away at his home on the
Stanford campus in February 2018 at the age of 88.Taylor's discovery of the quarks set the
stage for what is now known as the Standard Model in physics, which describes all the
fundamental particles and forces.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], Richard E. Taylor papers (SC1495). Department of Special
Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Physics.
Nobel Prize winners
Stanford University -- Faculty.
ARCH-2019-227 ARCH-2019-227
Box 1
Physics Notebooks
1949-1951
Box 3, Folder 1-10
Nobel Prize Correspondence
1990-1991
Box 4, Folder 1
Radiative Correction
1969-1971
Box 4, Folder 2
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics
1971
Box 4, Folder 3-6
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
1969-1973
Box 4, Folder 7
Conference on Photon Interactions in the Bev-Energy Range, January
1963
Box 4, Folder 8
Nobel Prize Centennial, December 2001
Box 5, Folder 1-6
Audiovisual Materials
Physical Description: 1
box(es)photographs, negatives, media slides,
cd-roms
Box 7, roll 2-3
KCEEA 573 No. 1 and No. 2
