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Protons are hadrons, meaning they are made of partons, which include quarks and the gluons that hold them together.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026

It was immediately guessed that partons might be quarks, and within a couple of years this had been established.

From Scientific American • Jun. 6, 2019

Starting in the 1950s, Feynman ventured into many other areas of theoretical physics: superfluids, superconductivity, gravitation and the constituents of protons and neutrons, which he called partons.

From Nature • May 7, 2018

His colleague Richard Feynman wanted to call these new basic particles partons, as in Dolly, but was overruled.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson