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Murray Gell-Mann (born 1929) 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... More
Murray Gell-Mann (born 1929) 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. He created current algebra in the 1960s as a way of extracting predictions from quark models when the fundamental theory was still murky, which led to model-independent sum rules confirmed by experiment. [Text and image from Wikipedia.]
Murray Gell-Mann's Presentations
| TED2007 | March 2007 |
Watch videoBeauty and truth in physics: Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones? Beauty and truth in physics: Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones? |
| TED2007 | March 2007 |
Watch videoDo all languages have a common ancestor?: After speaking at TED2007 on elegance in physics, the amazing Murray Gell-Mann gives a quick overview of another passionate interest: finding the common ancestry of our modern languages. Do all languages have a common ancestor?: After speaking at TED2007 on elegance in physics, the amazing Murray Gell-Mann gives a quick overview of another passionate interest: finding the common ancestry of our modern languages. |
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