“for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions”
Murray Gell-Mann was an American theoretical physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions. He is known for proposing the quark model and the Eightfold Way.
- Field
- Physics · Particle Physics
- Lifespan
- 1929–2019