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kidsneedscience: Today is the birthday of Murray Gell-Mann, who is credited with (co)discovering the quark in the same year as George Zweig.  Gell-Mann, however, deserves all the credit for naming the quark in 1964-he created the name out of a non-sense word from James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake.  Born September 15, 1929, Gell-Man was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery.  In addition to the quark, Dr. Gell-Mann had an amazing career-a true pioneer of particle physics.  Happy Birthday! Image of up and down quarks by Arpad Horvath, used with permission under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.  

kidsneedscience:

Today is the birthday of Murray Gell-Mann, who is credited with (co)discovering the quark in the same year as George Zweig.  Gell-Mann, however, deserves all the credit for naming the quark in 1964-he created the name out of a non-sense word from James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake.  Born September 15, 1929, Gell-Man was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery.  In addition to the quark, Dr. Gell-Mann had an amazing career-a true pioneer of particle physics.  Happy Birthday!

Image of up and down quarks by Arpad Horvath, used with permission under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.  

(via understandingtheuniverse)

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