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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]

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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]

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

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National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir

[NAP-1] National Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs, Rodney Lee Cool, By Robert K. Adair

[NYT-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

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