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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