Murray Gell-Mann

American physicist (1929–2019)

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

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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
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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1929
Active to: 2019

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Total plays: 1,407

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Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929, pronounced /ˈmʌriː ˈɡɛl ˈmæn/) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. He formulated the quark model of hadronic resonances, and identified the SU(3) flavor symmetry of the light quarks, extending isospin to include strangeness, which he also discovered. He discovered the V-A theory of chiral neutrinos in collaboration with Richard Feynman. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Murray+Gell-Mann">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,326x
MaxQuant enables high peptide identification rates, individualized p.p.b.-range mass accuracies and proteome-wide protein quantification
· 2008 · cited 14,422x
Nonparametric Tests Against Trend
· 1945 · cited 13,824x
<i>MolProbity</i>: all-atom structure validation for macromolecular crystallography
· 2009 · cited 13,674x

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Quotes

“Possibly we will find an elegant model, in agreement with observation, that yields the pattern of lepton masses as well as the pattern of quark bare masses and even relates hadrons and leptons. This is our dream; touch us!”
“Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behaviour of the whole.”
“I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad but that I couldn't commit suicide and then try MIT afterwards. The two operations, suicide and going to MIT, don't commute...”
“Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.”
“Three principles — the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the "unreasonable effectiveness" of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality — are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles and their interactions. Those three principles need not be assumed as separate metaphysical postulates. Instead, they are emergent properties of the fundamental laws of physics.”
“You don't need something more to get something more. That's what emergence means. Life can emerge from physics and chemistry plus a lot of accidents. The human mind can arise from neurobiology and a lot of accidents, the way the chemical bond arises from physics and certain accidents. Doesn't diminish the importance of these subjects to know they follow from more fundamental things plus accidents.”

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Official website: tuvalu.santafe.edu/~mgm
Image: Murray Gell-Mann - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012.jpg
Number of children: 2

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date of birth: 1929-09-15
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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.