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- NAME: Murray Gell-Mann
- OCCUPATION: Physicist
- BIRTH DATE: September 15, 1929 (Age: 83)
- EDUCATION: Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
- ZODIAC SIGN: Virgo
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Nobel Prize–winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann developed the concept of "strangeness" and gave the name "quark" to the basic building block of matter.
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Born September 15, 1929, Murray Gell-Mann entered Yale University at age 15, and got his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1953 he introduced the concept of "strangeness" to explain meson decay patterns. He then developed a system for classifying particles, giving the name "quark" to the basic building block of matter. Gell-Mann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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