Henry Way Kendall(December 9, 1926 โ February 15, 1999) was an American physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Henry Way Kendall was born on December 9, 1926, in Boston, Massachusetts. Henry Kendall attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he earned his bachelorโs degree in 1950. He pursued his graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earning his Ph.D. in 1955. His doctoral research focused on high-energy physics.