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Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elementary particles. Gell-Mann introduced the concept of quarks as the fundamental building blocks of the strongly interacting particles, and the renormalization group as a foundational element of quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. Murray Gell-Mann received the 1969…
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science · American theoretical physicist (1929–2019) · non-fiction writer · theoretical physicist · physicist · also Murray Gell-Mann, Gell-Mann
Born 15 September 1929 · Died 24 May 2019 · Q172840
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2023· 1 entry
By the Santa Fe Institute Press with a foreword by Douglas Hofstadter
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2019· 3 entries
Died 2019-05-24.
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“If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.”
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“Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.”
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2017· 1 entry
January 15, Audio and video interviews about the life and work of Richard Garwin, 2004-2012 Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, www
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2014· 1 entry
Won Helmholtz Medal (2014).
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2012· 1 entry
Gell-Mann and his companion Mary McFadden published the book Mary McFadden: A Lifetime of Design, Collecting, and Adventure
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2011· 1 entry
Gell-Mann reportedly attended the "Mindshift Conference" on Epstein's private island, Little Saint James
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded Humanist of the Year (2005).
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Won Albert Einstein Medal (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Gell-Mann also contributed a letter to The First Fifty Years, a collection of birthday greetings for Epstein
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1990· 1 entry
Murray Gell-Mann talks quarks (Video)
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1987· 1 entry
April 23, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, www
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1984· 1 entry
Gell-Mann was one of several co-founders of the Santa Fe Institute—a non-profit theoretical research institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico intended to study various aspects of a complex system and disseminate the notion of a
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1982· 1 entry
July 27, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, www
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1981· 1 entry
And in 1992 he married Marcia Southwick, whose son became his stepson
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1978).
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1974· 1 entry
Career landmark: board member (1974–1988).
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1972· 2 entries
Gell-Mann, together with Harald Fritzsch, Heinrich Leutwyler and William A
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Was on CERN's payroll as visiting professor
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1971).
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1969· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1969).
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For his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Won Franklin Medal (1967).
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1966).
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Awarded Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1966).
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1964· 1 entry
Gell-Mann and, independently, George Zweig went on to postulate the existence of quarks, particles which make up the hadrons of this scheme
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1962· 1 entry
Won Golden Plate Award (1962).
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1959).
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1958· 1 entry
Gell-Mann, in collaboration with Richard Feynman, in parallel with the independent team of E
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1951· 2 entries
After completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Coupling strength and nuclear reactions", under the supervision of Weisskopf
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And a visiting research professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1952 to 1953
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1948· 1 entry
And intended to pursue graduate studies in physics
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-09-15.
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