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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, @03:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @03:46AM (#847798)
    Richard Feynman's a big one. Most people familiar with the Manhattan Project will remember the names of giants like J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Niels Bohr, and John von Neumann. The latter should also be famous to computer science people for the von Neumann architecture of the stored-program computer. There's also John Bardeen, who actually won the Nobel Physics prize twice, once for being co-inventor of the transistor, and a second time as one of the pioneers in the physics of superconductivity.
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