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    Murray Gell-Mann (/ˈmʌri ˈɡɛl ˈmæn/; September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the development...
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  • The Gell-Mann matrices, developed by Murray Gell-Mann, are a set of eight linearly independent 3×3 traceless Hermitian matrices used in the study of the...
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    independently proposed by physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig in 1964. The proposal came shortly after Gell-Mann's 1961 formulation of a particle classification...
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    Eightfold way (physics) (category Murray Gell-Mann)
    Murray Gell-Mann and the Israeli physicist Yuval Ne'eman independently and simultaneously proposed the idea in 1961. The name comes from Gell-Mann's (1961)...
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    where the photon carries no electric charge. The term was coined by Murray Gell-Mann in 1962 for being similar to an adhesive or glue that keeps the nucleus...
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  • with that of the down and strange quarks) was postulated in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig to explain the Eightfold Way classification scheme...
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  • the corresponding non-interacting theory. It was proved in 1951 by Murray Gell-Mann and Francis E. Low. The theorem is useful because, among other things...
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  • The Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula (sometimes known as the NNG formula) relates the baryon number B, the strangeness S, the isospin I3 of quarks and hadrons...
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  • with that of the up and strange quarks) was postulated in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig to explain the Eightfold Way classification scheme...
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  • Totalitarian principle (category Murray Gell-Mann)
    states: "Everything not forbidden is compulsory." Physicists including Murray Gell-Mann borrowed this expression, and its satirical reference to totalitarianism...
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  • In physics, the Gell-Mann–Okubo mass formula provides a sum rule for the masses of hadrons within a specific multiplet, determined by their isospin (I)...
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    had tried, unsuccessfully, to work around. "Theoreticians", noted Murray Gell-Mann, "were in disgrace". In June 1947, leading American physicists met...
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    ironically, because he had once discussed the effect with physicist Murray Gell-Mann, "and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself...
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  • Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics. Random House. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-679-43764-2. By the end of the summer ... [Gell-Mann]...
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    Quark model (category Murray Gell-Mann)
    of them to date. The model was independently proposed by physicists Murray Gell-Mann, who dubbed them "quarks" in a concise paper, and George Zweig, who...
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    particle physicist under Richard Feynman. He introduced, independently of Murray Gell-Mann, the quark model (although he named it "aces"). He later turned his...
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    members of the SFI, McCarthy did not have a scientific background. As Murray Gell-Mann explained, "There isn't any place like the Santa Fe Institute, and...
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    Heisenberg; then, in 1953–56, according to strangeness by Murray Gell-Mann and Kazuhiko Nishijima (see Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula). To gain greater insight, the...
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    after Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with whom he had discussed the phenomenon. Crichton first described the "Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia...
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  • Mary Gell (1894–1978), a medical missionary Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019), American Nobel Prize-winning physicist Philip Gell (disambiguation) Rob Gell (born...
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  • follows the quark/anti-quark and three quark content respectively. Murray Gell-Mann recognized the group structure of elementary particle classification...
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    Pseudoscalar meson (category Murray Gell-Mann)
    eventually organized into a multiplet according to Murray Gell-Mann's so-called "Eightfold Way". Gell-Mann further predicted the existence of a ninth resonance...
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  • Strangeness (category Murray Gell-Mann)
    meson has the same sign as its charge. Strangeness was introduced by Murray Gell-Mann, Abraham Pais, Tadao Nakano and Kazuhiko Nishijima to explain the fact...
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  • offered insights, no approach led directly to a fundamental theory. Murray Gell-Mann along with George Zweig first proposed fractionally charged quarks...
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    sources such as "The Strange Quark". indicate 1947. Fritzsch, Harald; Gell-Mann, Murray (1972). "Current algebra: Quarks and what else?". EConf. C720906V2:...
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    Founding Workshops of the Santa Fe Institute, along with Nobel laureates Murray Gell-Mann, Manfred Eigen, and Philip Warren Anderson, and future laureate Frank...
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    acted on the protons and neutrons that make up the nucleus. In 1964, Murray Gell-Mann, and separately George Zweig, proposed that baryons, which include...
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    1960 and his Ph.D. in particle physics under Murray Gell-Mann in 1964. In collaboration with Gell-Mann and others, Hartle developed an alternative to...
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    Santa Fe Institute (category Murray Gell-Mann)
    Stirling Colgate, Murray Gell-Mann, Nick Metropolis, Herb Anderson, Peter A. Carruthers, and Richard Slansky. All but Pines and Gell-Mann were scientists...
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  • of strange antiquarks ( s ). This quantum number was introduced by Murray Gell-Mann. This definition gives the strange quark a strangeness of −1 for the...
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