Murray Gell-Mann


Murray Gell-Mann
Gell-Mann at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, 2012
Born15 September 1929(1929-09-15)
Manhattan, New York Ceety, U.S.
Dee'dMey 24, 2019 (aged 89)
ResidenceUnitit States
NaitionalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnitit States
Alma mater
  • Yale University (BS)
  • MIT (PhD)
Kent for
  • Coinin the term 'quark'
  • Elementary particles
  • Effective complexity
  • Gell-Mann and Low theorem
  • Gell-Mann matrices
  • Gell-Mann−Low renormalization group equation
  • Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula
  • Gell-Mann–Okubo mass formula
  • Strangeness
  • Plectics
Hauf-marrae(s)
  • J. Margaret Dow (m. 1955; her daith 1981)
  • Marcia Southwick (m. 1992)
BairnsTwa + 1 stepbairn
Awairds
  • Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Pheesics (1959)
  • E. O. Lawrence Awaird (1966)
  • John J. Carty Awaird (1968)
  • Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1969)
  • ForMemRS (1978)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsPheesics
Institutions
  • Santa Fe Institute
  • Varsity o New Mexico
  • Varsity o Soothren Californie
  • Californie Institute o Technology
  • Varsity o Chicago
ThesisCoupling strength and nuclear reactions (1951)
Doctoral advisorVictor Weisskopf[2]
Doctoral students
Wabsteid
www.santafe.edu/~mgm

Murray Gell-Mann (/ˈmʌri ˈɡɛl ˈmæn/; born September 15, 1929; deed Mey 24, 2019) wis an American pheesicist wha received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Pheesics for his wirk on the theory o elementary pairticles.

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