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Strange Beauty : Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
Strange Beauty Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics Author:George Johnson With a New Afterword — Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his models of the quark and the Eightfold Way. — Born into a Jewish immigrant family on New Yor... more »k's Lower East Side, Gell-Mann's prodigious talent was evident from an early age--he entered Yale at 15, completed his Ph.D. at 21, and was soon identifying the structures of the world's smallest components and illuminating the elegant symmetries of the universe.
Beautifully balanced in its portrayal of an extraordinary and difficult man, interpreting the concepts of advanced physics with scrupulous clarity and simplicity, Strange Beauty is a tour-de-force of both science writing and biography.« less
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