Murray Gell-Mann
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Murray Gell-Mann was an American physicist who made fundamental discoveries about the nature of matter and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969. His work, particularly on the structure of subatomic particles called quarks, helped explain how the universe is built at its most basic level.
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- 1929-09-15
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- 2019-05-24
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- 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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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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