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Sunday, June 26, 2022
Basic timeline of Murray Gell-Mann
his post is a basic timeline of physicist Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019). There are 13 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia
- 1929: Born in Manhattan, New York
- ~1943: Enrolls at Yale College
- 1951: Receives PhD in physics from MIT
- 1951: Becomes fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study
- 1955: Begins teaching at the California Institute of Technology
- 1958: Discovers chiral properties of the weak interaction and proposes V-A theory with Feynman, Sudarshan and Marshak
- 1961: Proposes classification system for hadrons
- 1964: Proposes quarks (independently of Zweig)
- 1969: Receives Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1972: Proposes color charge with Fritzsch
- 1993: Retires from the California Institute of Technology
- 1994: Publishes The Quark and the Jaguar
- 2019: Died at age 89 in Santa Fe, New Mexico