Gell-Mann

American  

[gel-mahn, -man] / gɛlˈmɑn, -ˈmæn /

noun

1. Murray 1929–2019, U.S. physicist: devised a system for classifying elementary particles and postulated theory of quarks; Nobel Prize 1969.

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Gell-Mann British  

/ ˈɡɛlˈmæn /

noun

1. Murray. born 1929, US physicist, noted for his research on the interaction and classification of elementary particles: Nobel prize for physics in 1969

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Gell-Mann Scientific  

/ gĕl′măn′ /

1. 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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Example Sentences

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.”

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2022

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.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2020

Nobel-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who discovered the quark and was represented by Brockman, thanked Epstein for his financial support in the acknowledgments section of his 1995 book, The Quark and the Jaguar.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2019

Brockman was Gell-Mann’s agent, and Gell-Mann, in the acknowledgments section of his 1995 book “The Quark and the Jaguar,” thanked Epstein for his financial support.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2019

These particles were named quarks by the Caltech physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who won the Nobel Prize in 1969 for his work on them.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking