1 nov 1968 - Stanford University:
Deep inelastic scattering
experiments at the
Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center (SLAC)
show that the proton contains
much smaller, point-like
objects and is therefore
not an elementary particle.
Physicists at the time are
reluctant to identify these
objects with quarks, instead
calling them partons —
a term coined by
Richard Feynman.