Strange Beauty

by Johnson, George

George Johnson covers science for The New York Times. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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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

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Knopf. Very Good. 6 x 1.25 x 10 inches. Hardcover. 1999. 448 pages. <br>No contemporary scientist has done more to shape o ur understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner many consider the most brilliant physicist of his g eneration. His discoveries of the quark and the Eightfold Way wer e cornerstones for all that has… Read more about this item
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