Murray Gell-Mann

Gell-Mann, Murray 

Born Sept. 15, 1929., in New York. American theoretical physicist.

Gell-Mann graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951, becoming a professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies in Chicago in 1953. In 1955 he joined the staff of the California Institute of Technology. His major works are in quantum field theory, the physics of elementary particles, and nuclear physics. Gell-Mann wrote the basic works on the classification of elementary particles. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1969.

WORKS

“Elementarnye chastitsy.” Uspekhifizicheskikh nauk, 1958, vol. 62, issue 2. (With E. Rosenbaum.)
“Sil’no vzaimodeistvuiushchie chastitsy.” Uspekhi fizicheskikh nauk, 1964, vol. 83, issue 4. (With A. Rosenfeld.)