Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics - Hardcover

Johnson, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679437649 ISBN 13: 9780679437642

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

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A definitive portrait of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann describes his remarkable contributions to the world of twentieth-century science, including his discovery of quarks and contributions to the field of complexity. 25,000 first printing.

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George Johnson, a former Alicia Patterson Fellow and finalist for the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, covers science for the New York Times. His previous books include Machinery of the Mind: Inside the New Science of Artificial Intelligence, In the Palaces of Memory: How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads, and Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order. He lives with his wife in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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ary scientist has done more to shape our understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner many consider the most brilliant physicist of his generation. His discoveries of the quark and the Eightfold Way were cornerstones for all that has followed in particle physics, the effort to explain the very stuff of creation. In this first biography of Gell-Mann, George Johnson tells the story of a remarkable life.



Born on New York's Lower East Side, Gell-Mann was quickly recognized as a child prodigy. Propelled by an intense boyhood curiosity and a love for nature, he entered Yale at fifteen. By age twenty-three he had ignited a revolution, laying bare in his groundbreaking work the strange beauty of the minute particles that constitute the ultimate components of physical reality.



Particle physics is the most competitive of sports, and Johnson shows us the precocious polymath holding his own with giants like Robert Oppenheimer, En

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0679437649
• ISBN 13: 9780679437642
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 434
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