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Murray Gell-Mann, born 1929
Murray Gell-Mann's concept of the "eightfold way," regarding particle coherence and predictability, has been a vital tool in expanding knowledge of nuclear particles. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his work on the theory of elementary particles. What is more, his book The Quark and the Jaguar (1994) made these theories accessible to the general reader. Francis Bello photographed Gell-Mann discussing subatomic particles called mesons at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) in 1956, and the picture appeared in the January 1957 issue of Fortune magazine. At the time, Gell-Mann had recently started teaching at CalTech, following posts at the University of Chicago's Institute of Nuclear Studies and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Francis Bello, 1956 |