Strange Beauty
Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
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Word Count
116,000 words, Guess
Page Count
464 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7700580M
- ISBN-139780679756880
- ISBN-100679756884
- OCLC Control Number47851781
- OCLC Control Number40821099
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Numberstrangebeauty00geor
- Library of Congress Control Number99019952
- Goodreads258459
- LibraryThing450312
Classifications
- LCCQC774
Description
"Science writer George Johnson brings his talent to the first biography of Nobel Prize laureate Murray Gell-Mann, the man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his theories of the quark and the Eightfold Way.". "Born into a family of Jewish immigrants on New York's East 14th Street, Gell-Mann demonstrated his prodigious genius from an early age - he entered Yale at fifteen, completed his Ph.D. at twenty-one, and was soon uncovering the secrets of subatomic particles and illuminating the elegant symmetries of the universe. Before long, a favorite pastime among physicists was arguing over who was smarter, Richard Feynman or Murray Gell-Mann."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
Scouring the old Manhattan telephone directories from the early years of the century, now relegated to decaying spools of microfilm in a dark corner of the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, one looks in vain for the curious appellation "Gell-Man."
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