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
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday May 26 2019, @03:00AM (2 children)
Not being a student of physics, I've never even heard of Murray Gell-Mann. Stephen Hawking was the most famous one since Einstein. Carl Sagan and Neil deGrase Tyson are more famous for PR than groundbreaking discoveries. What other giants have there been since Einstein? I've heard of Richard Feynman. Umm... Stephen Wolfram??
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @03:09AM
You haven't heard of the Polish physicist Bzipitidoo Johnson?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @03:46AM