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Nobel laureate and Arms Control Association (ACA) board member Henry Way Kendall died while making an underwater photography dive in Florida on February 15, 1999. He was 72.

Born in Boston in 1926, Kendall received a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954. After teaching at Stanford University, he joined the M.I.T. faculty in 1961 and remained there until his death.

High-energy experiments conducted during 1967–1973 by Kendall and two colleagues, Richard E. Taylor and Jerome I. Friedman, confirmed the existence of quarks, the basic building blocks of matter. In 1990 the three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research.

In 1969 Kendall helped found the Union of Concerned Scientists. As chairman since 1973, he was deeply involved with arms control and nuclear safety issues, opposing President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative during the 1980s and warning of the dangers of global warming, a topic on which he helped brief President Clinton in 1997. That year, in connection with the Kyoto Climate Summit, he helped produce a statement signed by 2,000 scientists calling for action on global warming.

Kendall co-authored several books, including Energy Strategies—Toward a Solar Future (1980), Fallacy of Star Wars (1985), and Crisis Stability and Nuclear War (1988). He joined the ACA board in 1979.