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American physicist

Rodney Lee Cool (March 8, 1920 – April 16, 1988) was an American physicist who helped to establish the existence of the quark.[1] [2]Cool was a professor of high-energy physics at Rockefeller University,[2] a member of the National Academies of Sciences.[1][3]He was also a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[2]Cool founded an experimental physics group at Rockefeller University in 1970.[2]

Cool graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of South Dakota and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.[2]He also worked at European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva. There he and his colleagues performed experiments that showed the quark to be a building block of neutrons and protons.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b c National Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs, Rodney Lee Cool, By Robert K. Adair
  2. ^ a b c d e f New York Times:Rodney L. Cool, 68, Experimental Physicist, April 20, 1988
  3. ^ New York Times:Marriage Announcement 23 -- No Title, November 11, 1979