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Murray Gell-Mann

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Murray Gell-Mann

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American physicist (1929–2019)

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Murray Gell-Mann was an American theoretical physicist and non-fiction writer. Born in Lower Manhattan in 1929, he worked at the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology. His professional affiliations included membership in the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was educated at Yale College, Yale University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Gell-Mann received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Helmholtz Medal, and the John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science. He studied under Victor Weisskopf and Enrico Fermi. His doctoral students included Sidney Coleman, Kenneth G. Wilson, James Hartle, and Christopher T. Hill. He authored works such as *The Eightfold Way* and *Quark and the Jaguar D*. He died in Santa Fe in 2019.

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Born
1929-09-15
Died
2019-05-24
Works
18

Top works

  • The Eightfold Way; A Review with a Collection of Reprints (Frontiers in Physics Series: Lecture Note & Reprint Series)
  • Quark and the Jaguar D
  • The Eightfold Way
  • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight
  • ha-Ḳuṿarḳ ṿeha-yaguʾar

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1969

    “for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions”

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Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Lower Manhattan
Place of death
Santa Fe
Occupation
physicist
Employer
California Institute of Technology
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
Victor Weisskopf
Student of
Enrico Fermi
Doctoral student
George Chapline, Jr.
Field of work
physics
Official website
tuvalu.santafe.edu/~mgm
Image
Murray Gell-Mann - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012.jpg
Number of children
2
Residence
United States
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1929-09-15
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Sidney Coleman
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Murray Gell-Mann
date of death
2019-05-24
birth name
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Encyclopedic overview

Murray Gell-Mann (/ˈmʌri ˈɡɛl ˈmæn/; September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) 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 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.

Gell-Mann played key roles in developing the concept of chirality in the theory of the weak interactions and spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in the strong interactions, which controls the physics of the light mesons. In the 1970s he was a co-inventor of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) which explains the confinement of quarks in mesons and baryons and forms a large part of the Standard Model of elementary particles and forces.

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