Murray Gell-Mann - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1969
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Murray Gell-Mann

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1969
for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
9/15/1929
place of birth
Lower Manhattan
date of death
5/24/2019
place of death
Santa Fe
Lived
89 years

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doctoral student
  • Norman Dombey
    • end time: 1961
  • William C. Davidon
    • end time: 1954
  • Christopher T. Hill
  • Jon Mathews
  • Cosmas Zachos
  • Rod Crewther
  • Todd Brun
  • Philip Moss Platzman
  • Carl Iddings
  • Sam M. Berman
  • Henry Hoyt Hilton
  • Donald F. DuBois
  • Kenneth Young
  • Sidney Coleman
  • George Chapline, Jr.
  • James Hartle
  • Kenneth G. Wilson
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 1978
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1960
  • American Physical Society
    • start time: 1959
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1964
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1993
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 3/31/1994
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • JASON
  • Royal Irish Academy
    • start time: 2003
position held
  • board member
    • start time: 8/31/1974
    • end time: 1988
educated at
  • Yale College
  • Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School
  • Jonathan Edwards College
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Yale University
field of work
  • physics
  • particle physics
occupation
  • physicist
  • non-fiction writer
  • theoretical physicist
employer
  • University of Chicago
  • California Institute of Technology
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