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

In 2008, the Nobel-prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann declared it was only a matter of time before laws of history would be found, too.

From The Guardian • Nov. 12, 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

Gell-Mann took the name from a line in Finnegans Wake: "Three quarks for Muster Mark!"

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson