Born: 1929-09-15 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American theoretical physicist (1929–2019)
Murray Gell-Mann was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elementary particles. Gell-Mann introduced the concept of quarks as the fundamental building blocks of the strongly interacting particles, and the renormalization group as a foundational element of quantum field theory and statistical mechanics.
Awarded on: 1969-10-30
"for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions"
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