Last Updated: 07 May, 2024 | Views: 422
Age: 89
Profession: Scientist
Other Profession(s): Physicist, Researcher
Famous For: Nobel Prize in Physics
Higher Education: Yale University (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
About (Profile/Biography):
Murray Gell-Mann was born on 15th September 1929 in Manhattan. Murray Gell-Mann's parents were Pauline and Arthur Isidore Gell-Mann. Murray Gell-Mann graduated valedictorian from the Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School at age 14 and entered Yale College as the member of Jonathan Edwards College. Murray Gell-Mann received a Ph.D. in physics from MIT after completing a doctoral dissertation.
Murray Gell-Mann Career:
Murray Gell-Mann Early Career:
• Murray Gell-Mann worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in 1951 and a guest research professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
• Murray Gell-Mann was a guest professor at Columbia University and a professor at the University of Chicago.
Murray Gell-Mann Work in Nuclear Physics Field:
• In 1958, in collaboration with Richard Feynman and the team of E. C. George Sudarshan & Robert Marshak, Murray Gell-Mann found the chiral structures of the weak interaction of physics and prepared the V-A theory.
• Murray Gell-Mann's work involved recently discovered cosmic ray particles called kaons and hyperons.
Murray Gell-Mann Work On Complexity Science
• Murray Gell-Mann was a Professor of Physics Emeritus at the California Institute and a professor in the physics & astronomy department of the University of New Mexico.
• Murray Gell-Mann was a co-founder of Santa Fe Institute—a non-profit research institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that plans to study different disseminate the notion of the separate interdisciplinary study of complexity theory and aspects of a complex system.
Murray Gell-Mann Popular for Writing:
• Murray Gell-Mann wrote a science book about physics and complexity, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex.
• Murray Gell-Mann's one-time Caltech associate Stephen Wolfram called Johnson's book "an excellent biography of Murray, which Murray hated.
Murray Gell-Mann Work For Quantum Foundations:
• Murray Gell-Mann propounded the consistent histories approach to understanding quantum mechanics.
• Murray Gell-Mann advocated in papers with James Hartle.
Murray Gell-Mann Awards:
• 1959: Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
• 1966: E. O. Lawrence Award
• 1968: John J. Carty Award
• 1969: Nobel Prize in Physics
• 1978: ForMemRS
Murray Gell-Mann Unknown Facts
Outside Interests: Murray Gell-Mann's interests outside of physics included archaeology, numismatics, birdwatching, and linguistics.
Introduced Current Algebra: Murray Gell-Mann introduced modern algebra as a method of systematically explaining the symmetries to extract predictions from quark models.
