Jerome Isaac Friedman Quotes


We should willingly take risks in supporting new projects. The tendency is to play it safe when funding is low, but we need to remember that the greatest risks have the greatest payoffs.


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Jerome Isaac Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Will Innovation Flourish in the Future? American Institute of Physics, 2002

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Jerome Isaac Friedman
Jerome Isaac Friedman
  • Born: March 28, 1930
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Physicist

Jerome Isaac Friedman is an American physicist. He is Institute Professor and Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Henry Kendall and Richard Taylor, for work showing an internal structure for protons later known to be quarks. Friedman sits on the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.