Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
Not Even Wrong (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Science News is running a long interview with Murray Gell-Mann, who will be celebrating his 80th birthday tomorrow. Gell-Mann was arguably (Feynman is one who would argue..) the most influential figure in theoretical particle physics throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In the interview, he gives the standard story about the cosmological constant/supersymmetry/hierarchy problem, [...]
Libertarian Democrat Point Of View (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
TO BE NOTED: From Discover: " The Man Who Found Quarks and Made Sense of the Universe 03.17.2009 Murray Gell-Mann had a smash success with particles, notorious dustups with Feynman, and a missed opportunity with Einstein. by Susan Kruglinski; photography by Jamey Stillings It is no accident that the quark—the building block of protons and neutrons and, by extension, of you and everything...
