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Murray Gell-Mann

1929–2019 · Particle Physics

Lifespan

1929–2019

Field

Particle Physics

Known For

Quarks, the eightfold way, and the name 'quark' lifted from Finnegans Wake.

Nationality

American

Nobel

Physics 1969

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