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Gell-Mann
[ gel-mahn, -man ]
noun
- Mur·ray [mur, -ee, muhr, -ee], 1929–2019, U.S. physicist: devised a system for classifying elementary particles and postulated theory of quarks; Nobel Prize 1969.
Gell-Mann
/ ˈɡɛlˈmæn /
noun
- Gell-MannMurray1929MUSSCIENCE: physicist Murray. born 1929, US physicist, noted for his research on the interaction and classification of elementary particles: Nobel prize for physics in 1969
Gell-Mann
/ gĕl′măn′ /
- American physicist who helped introduce the concept of quarks. He received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1969 for his contributions to the description and classification of subatomic particles.
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Over the years, professional physicists have decried what they view as the misapplication of quantum physics principles to unrelated self-help topics—what Caltech Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann famously described as “quantum flapdoodle.”
The condensed-matter physicists were so used to being looked down upon by the high-energy physics community — particle physicist Murray Gell-Mann described condensed matter as “squalid-state physics” — that they didn’t look down on other people.
His colleague Murray Gell-Mann, who died last May, liked to disparage Dr. Anderson’s field as “squalid state physics,” reflecting the notion that particle physics, Dr. Gell-Mann’s specialty, was a purer and superior endeavor.
He takes the term “Odyssean education” from the Nobel-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, referring to “an education that starts with the biggest questions and problems and teaches people to understand connections between them”.
In 2008, the Nobel-prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann declared it was only a matter of time before laws of history would be found, too.
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