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.
[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.
There he and his colleagues performed experiments that showed the quark to be a building block of neutrons and protons.