Mann, Murray Gell

Gell-Mann, Murray. The Quark and the Jaguar. New York W. H. Freeman, 1994. Gell-Mann writes of his two main scientific interests, particle physics and the sciences of complexity. 

Gell-Mann, Murray (1929- JUS theoretical physicist, who held a professorship at the California Institute of Technology. In 1955 he proposed the property of strangeness for certain fundamental particles. In 1961 he and Yuval Ne eman (1925-2006) proposed the eightfold way to define the structure of particles. This led to Gell-Maim s postulate of the quark (see elemen-... 

The generally accepted notion of wave-particle duality, which predates Heisenberg and Bohr, could be reconciled with the probability interpretation, but the fuzziness associated with waves remained unexplained in the orthodox tradition. The proclamation of the quantum-mechanical uncertainty principle was intended to take care of the oversight. A more serious indictment of the orthodox tradition is hard to imagine, short of the blunt statement by Nobel physicist, Murray Gell-Mann [28] ... 

By 1970 it began to appear that matter might contain even smaller particles, an idea suggested in 1963 by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann (who called the particles quarks) and independently by American physicist George Zweig (who called them aces). There are in actuality hundreds of subatomic particles that have been observed, but many of them are unstable. 

Einstein is by no means the only latter-day scientific authority whose stature stifles legitimate enquiry. It was stated by Murray Gell-Mann (1979) that... 

A typical solution-state NMR spectrum of l-chloroethene is shown in Fig. 7.1. We are first shocked by 11 peaks as we expected only three, one for each hydrogen. The physicist Murray Gell-Mann said at the discovery of the subatomic particle, the quark, Who ordered this. In general, spectroscopy should yield sufficient, but not overwhelming, information. Here, we will examine the l-chloroethene spectrum and learn for ourselves if the 11 peaks are overwhelming or just what we might have ordered. A few general questions ... 

Johnson, George. Strange Beauty Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics. New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 

American physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George... 

Quarks are the fundamental particles of which protons and neutrons are made. The word quark was coined by the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann who, in his own words, made that choice when in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word quark in the phrase Three quarks for Muster Mark. ... 

Murray Gell-Mann 1910 Johannes Diderik van der Wa2ils... 

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