biography
pronunciation:
[gelman]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Theoretical physicist, born in New York City, USA. He studied at Yale and the Massachussets Institute of Technology, becoming professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology in 1956. At 24 he made a major contribution by introducing the concept of strangeness into the theory of elemental particles. This allowed new classifications and predictions, outlined by Gell-Mann and Ne'eman in their book The Eightfold Way (1964). He proposed the existence of sub-atomic particles, which he named quarks, and subsequent research brought widespread acceptance of his hypothesis. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969. In 1993 he became director of the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, and in 1994 published The Quark and the Jaguar. |
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