Murray Gell-Mann
1929-
American Physicist
Following World War II, a new level of governmental support for high energy physics research in the United States and Europe led to the discovery of numerous ...
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Gell-Mann, Murray (1929- )
American physicist
Prior to the 1940s and 1950s, only a handful of fundamental particles—among them the proton, neutron, electron, and positron—had been discov...
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The American physicist Murray Gell-Mann (born 1929) coined the definition "quarks" to describe the triplets of particles that form the cores of atoms. The Nobel Prize winner for physics in 1969, he he...
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Murray Gell-Mann, a particle physicist, helped to develop the Stanford model, which describes the behavior of subatomic particles and their forces. He contributed some unique ways of categorizing and ...
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Prior to the 1940s and 1950s, only a handful of fundamental particles--the proton, neutron, electron, and positron, among them--had been discovered in particle physics research. But the study of cosmi...
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Murray Gell-Mann
Gell-Mann, Murray (1929- )
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann