Murray Gell-Mann Net Worth
Murray Gell-Mann Net Worth is
$1.4 Million
Murray Gell-Mann Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Murray Gell-Mann (/?m?ri ???l ?mæn/; born September 15, 1929) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. He is the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, a Distinguished Fellow and co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute, Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of New Mexico, and the Presidential Professor of Physics and Medicine at the University of Southern California.He introduced, independently of George Zweig, the quark - constituents of all hadrons - having first identified the SU(3) flavor symmetry of hadrons. This symmetry is now understood to underlie the light quarks, extending isospin to include strangeness, a quantum number which he also discovered.He developed the V?A theory of the weak interaction in collaboration with Richard Feynman. In the 1960s, he introduced current algebra as a method of systematically exploiting symmetries to extract predictions from quark models, in the absence of reliable dynamical theory. This method led to model-independent sum rules confirmed by experiment and provided starting points underpinning the development of the standard theory of elementary particles.Gell-Mann, along with Maurice Lévy, developed the sigma model of pions, which describes low-energy pion interactions. Modifying the integer-charged quark model of Moo-Young Han and Yoichiro Nambu, Harald Fritzsch and Gell-Mann were the first to write down the modern accepted theory of quantum chromodynamics, although they did not anticipate asymptotic freedom. In 1969 he received the Nobel Prize in physics for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.Gell-Mann is responsible, together with Pierre Ramond and Richard Slansky, and independently of Peter Minkowski, Rabindra Mohapatra, Goran Senjanovic, Sheldon Lee Glashow, and Tsutomu Yanagida, for the see-saw theory of neutrino masses, that produces masses at the large scale in any theory with a right-handed neutrino. He is also known to have played a large role in keeping string theory alive through the 1970s and early 1980s, supporting that line of research at a time when it was unpopular. | Date Of Birth | September 15, 1929 |
| Place Of Birth | Manhattan, New York City, United States |
| Weight | 119 pounds |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Marcia Southwick |
| Star Sign | Virgo |
| # | Quote |
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| 1 | In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been "kwork." Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word "quark" in the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark." Since "quark" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of a gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with "Mark," as well as "bark" and other such words, I had to find an excuse to pronounce it as "kwork." But the book represents the dreams of a publican named Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Words in the text are typically drawn from several sources at once, like the "portmanteau words" in Through the Looking Glass. From time to time, phrases occur in the book that are partially determined by calls for drinks at the bar. I argued, therefore, that perhaps one of the multiple sources of the cry "Three quarks for Muster Mark" might be "Three quarts for Mister Mark," in which case the pronunciation "kwork" would not be totally unjustified. In any case, the number three fitted perfectly the way quarks occur in nature. |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | Theoretical physicist, 1969 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. Professor Gell-Mann's "eightfold way" theory brought order to the chaos created by the discovery of some 100 particles in the atom's nucleus. Then he found that all of those particles, including the neutron and proton, are composed of fundamental building blocks that he named "quarks." |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Closer to Truth | 2000 | TV Series | Himself |
| Simply Complex | 2000 | Documentary | |
| The Revenge of the Dead Indians | 1993 | Documentary | Himself |
| Creation of the Universe | 1985 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Horizon | 1964 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Known for movies
Creation of the Universe (1985)
as Actor
Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language (2007)
as Himself
The Revenge of the Dead Indians (1993)
as Himself
Simply Complex (2000)
as Actor