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posted by janrinok on Saturday May 25 2019, @11:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-stand-on-the-shoulders-of-giants dept.

Nobel prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann has died.

A polymath who discovered and organized the tiniest building blocks of matter and went on to study the most complex systems in the universe, Gell-Mann died Friday at the age of 89.

"Much of what we currently understand about particle physics was invented by Murray Gell-Mann," says Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at Caltech, where Gell-Mann taught for decades. "He was a towering influence in the field."

The New York Times has his obituary


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @02:28AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @02:28AM (#847774)

    He knew fake news before it was cool: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday May 26 2019, @02:39AM (2 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday May 26 2019, @02:39AM (#847781) Homepage Journal

    That's a brilliant guy. My son Don Jr. loved Jurassic Park, so amazing how they did the Dinosaurs in that one. And I think that's part of what got him into hunting. That and visiting his Grandpa in Prague.

    • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Sunday May 26 2019, @03:05AM (1 child)

      by Snotnose (1623) on Sunday May 26 2019, @03:05AM (#847787)

      I can almost always tell when the dinosaurs in movies are fake.

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      • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday May 26 2019, @10:46AM

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday May 26 2019, @10:46AM (#847859) Journal

        Yeah, the criterion is pretty simple: Is the dinosaur they show extinct? If yes, the dinosaur shown is fake. Otherwise, you might have to look closer.

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        The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.