Strange Beauty
Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
by George Johnson
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"Science writer George Johnson brings his talent to the first biography of Nobel Prize laureate Murray Gell-Mann, the man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his theories of the quark and the Eightfold Way.".
"Born into a family of Jewish immigrants on New York's East 14th Street, Gell-Mann demonstrated his prodigious genius from an early age - he entered Yale at fifteen, completed his Ph.D. at twenty-one, and was soon uncovering the secrets of subatomic particles and illuminating the elegant symmetries of the universe. Before long, a favorite pastime among physicists was arguing over who was smarter, Richard Feynman or Murray Gell-Mann."--BOOK JACKET.
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Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
October 17, 2000, Vintage, Vintage Books
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in English
0679756884 9780679756880
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Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
October 12, 1999, Knopf
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0679437649 9780679437642
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"Scouring the old Manhattan telephone directories from the early years of the century, now relegated to decaying spools of microfilm in a dark corner of the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, one looks in vain for the curious appellation "Gell-Man.""
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