Strange beauty : Murray Gell-Mann and the revolution in twentieth-century physics

By:

Jhonson, George

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 434 pages: illustrations; 25 cmISBN:

9780679437642

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

530.092 Johnson, George.

Summary: "No contemporary scientist has done more to shape our understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner many consider the most brilliant physicist of his generation. His discoveries of the quark and the Eightfold Way were cornerstones for all that has followed in particle physics, the effort to explain the very stuff of creation. In this first biography of Gell-Mann, George Johnson tells the story of a remarkable life."

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"No contemporary scientist has done more to shape our understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner many consider the most brilliant physicist of his generation. His discoveries of the quark and the Eightfold Way were cornerstones for all that has followed in particle physics, the effort to explain the very stuff of creation. In this first biography of Gell-Mann, George Johnson tells the story of a remarkable life."

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