Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann
Gell-Mann at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, 2012
Born	(1929-09-15)September 15, 1929 Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Died	May 24, 2019(2019-05-24) (aged 89)[1] Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.
Nationality	American
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Yale University (BS) MIT (PhD)
Known for	Coining the term 'quark' Elementary particles Effective complexity Gell-Mann and Low theorem Gell-Mann matrices Gell-Mann−Low renormalization group equation Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula Gell-Mann–Okubo mass formula Strangeness Plectics
Spouses	J. Margaret Dow ​ ​ (m. 1955; died 1981)​ Marcia Southwick ​ (m. 1992)​
Children	Two + 1 stepchild
Awards	Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1959) E. O. Lawrence Award (1966) John J. Carty Award (1968) Nobel Prize in Physics (1969) ForMemRS (1978)[2]
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Santa Fe Institute University of New Mexico University of Southern California California Institute of Technology University of Chicago
Thesis	Coupling strength and nuclear reactions (1951)
Website	www.santafe.edu/~mgm

Murray Gell-Mann (September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019)^[1] was an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.^[3] He was the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, a Distinguished Fellow and co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute, Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of New Mexico, and the Presidential Professor of Physics and Medicine at the University of Southern California.^[4]

Gell-Mann has also worked at CERN, as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in 1972.^[5][6]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Johnson, George (May 24, 2019). "Murray Gell-Mann, Who Peered at Particles and Saw the Universe, Dies at 89". Obituaries. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
2. ↑ "Professor Murray Gell-Mann ForMemRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17.
3. ↑ "Murray Gell-Mann - Biographical". NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
4. ↑ "Nobel Prize Winner Appointed Presidential Professor at USC". Archived from the original on 2010-09-19. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
5. ↑ "CERN-affiliated article by Gell-Mann". Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-4034-5_20. Retrieved 11 June 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
6. ↑ Scientific publications of M. Gell-Mann on INSPIRE-HEP