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Gell-Mann, Murray (1929-)
    

American physicist who, independently of Ne'eman, worked out a method for grouping baryons Eric Weisstein's World of Physics into families, and theoretically predicted the existence of quarks. Eric Weisstein's World of Physics Gell-Mann was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.

Feynman, Ne'eman, Zweig




References

Gell-Mann, M. and Ne'eman, Y. The Eightfold Way. New York: W. A. Benjamin, 1964.

Gell-Mann, M. The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1994.

Nobel Foundation. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1969." http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1969/.



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