Strange Beauty
Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
Edición de la obra Strange Beauty
| Autor | George Johnson |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Knopf |
| Fecha de publicación | October 12, 1999 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 448 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780679437642 |
| ISBN-10 | 0679437649 |
| Número de Cutter | J67s |
"Science writer George Johnson brings his talent to the first biography of Nobel Prize laureate Murray Gell-Mann, the man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his theories of the quark and the Eightfold Way.". "Born into a family of Jewish immigrants on New York's East 14th Street, Gell-Mann demonstrated his prodigious genius from an early age - he entered Yale at fifteen, completed his Ph.D. at twenty-one, and was soon uncovering the secrets of subatomic particles and illuminating the elegant symmetries of the universe. Before long, a favorite pastime among physicists was arguing over who was smarter, Richard Feynman or Murray Gell-Mann."--BOOK JACKET.