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Physicist Murray Gell-Mann is the third lecturer in the College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences four-part series "Art as Social Commentary."
Murray Gell-Mann is Professor and Co-Chairman of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute, and author of the popular science book "The Quark and the Jaguar, Adventures in the Simple and the Complex." In 1969, Professor Gell-Mann received the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. His "eightfold way" theory brought order to the chaos created by the discovery of some 100 particles in the atom's nucleus. Then he found that all of those particles, including the neutron and proton, are composed of fundamental building blocks that he named "quarks."
Although a theoretical physicist, Gell-Mann's interests extend to many other subjects including natural history, historical linguistics and archeology.
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