Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann
Gell-Mann at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, 2012
Born	15 September 1929(1929-09-15) Manhattan, New York Ceety, U.S.
Dee'd	Mey 24, 2019 (aged 89)
Residence	Unitit States
Naitionality	American
Citizenship	Unitit States
Alma mater	Yale University (BS) MIT (PhD)
Kent for	Coinin the term 'quark' Elementary particles Effective complexity Gell-Mann and Low theorem Gell-Mann matrices Gell-Mann−Low renormalization group equation Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula Gell-Mann–Okubo mass formula Strangeness Plectics
Hauf-marrae(s)	J. Margaret Dow (m. 1955; her daith 1981) Marcia Southwick (m. 1992)
Bairns	Twa + 1 stepbairn
Awairds	Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Pheesics (1959) E. O. Lawrence Awaird (1966) John J. Carty Awaird (1968) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1969) ForMemRS (1978)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Pheesics
Institutions	Santa Fe Institute Varsity o New Mexico Varsity o Soothren Californie Californie Institute o Technology Varsity o Chicago
Thesis	Coupling strength and nuclear reactions (1951)
Doctoral advisor	Victor Weisskopf[2]
Doctoral students	Kenneth G. Wilson[2] Sidney Coleman[2] Rod Crewther[2] James Hartle[2] Christopher T. Hill[3] H. Jay Melosh[citation needit] Barton Zwiebach[2]
Wabsteid
www.santafe.edu/~mgm

Murray Gell-Mann (/ˈmʌri ˈɡɛl ˈmæn/; born September 15, 1929; deed Mey 24, 2019) wis an American pheesicist wha received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Pheesics for his wirk on the theory o elementary pairticles.