RIP Professor Murray Gell-Mann

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RIP Professor Murray Gell-Mann

#1 Post by Bob78164 » Fri May 24, 2019 2:32 pm

Nobel Laureate, Robert A. Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics, emeritus (at Caltech), and the person who named quarks, Professor Gell-Mann was one of 6 (if memory serves) Nobel Laureates on the faculty when I was at Caltech. He died today at age 89. --Bob
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