Murray Gell-Mann

While I was contemplating where to go I encountered Murray Gell-Mann, who was going to Paris for a year.

A Portrait of the Subatomic World Jeremy Bernstein 2011

This comes from a German word meaning "curds" and is not related to the subatomic particle called a quark, a name coined by Murray Gell-Mann, who originally pronounced it as "quork."

Week in Words Erin McKean 2012

It is no quirk that the avid reader of James Joyce and a qualified linguist, atomic physicist Murray Gell-Mann, chose quark over quork, based on the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in "Finnegan's Wake," because he had found there were three kinds of quarks in a proton and the word echoed the phrase "three quarts for Mister" elsewhere in the novel "Dairy Daring: Quark," Week in Words, Jan. 21.

Quarks, Quorks, Joyce and a Wake 2012

But the latest Science paper "and our own observations suggest that it is possible to detect an arrow of time" underlying proto-human languages spoken more than 8,000 years ago, said Murray Gell-Mann of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, who read the Science paper and supports it.

The Mother of All Languages Gautam Naik 2011

Krugman criticized Gore for what he termed "Pop Science", relating a "nightmare" he had of Gore taking advice from scientists at the Santa Fe institute Though Physics laureate Murray Gell-Mann was not one of the scientists in Krugman's nightmare, he is a co-founder of Santa Fe Institute.

Framing Al Gore EliRabett 2010

Nobel Laureate physicist Murray Gell-Mann borrowed a term from Buddhist scripture and named the relationship between particles made up of quarks "the Eightfold Way."

TEXAS FAITH: Why should science talk to religion? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

Nobel Prize winner in Physics Murray Gell-Mann stated that problem formulation is trickier than problem solving and in schools problems are always formulated for you, thus making it difficult for students to adjust to the world outside when they are forced to innovate.

Sunil Chacko: Vancouver, Multicultural Gateway To The World 2009

In the “yes” category were Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, and Murray Gell-Mann, while the “no” answers included Roger Penrose.

The Simulation Argument and Christianity « Anglican Samizdat 2009

Wielding laypeople's terms and a sense of humor, Nobel Prize winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones?

Beauty and truth in physics 2008

Wielding laypeople's terms and a sense of humor, Nobel Prize winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones?

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