Murray Gell-Mann was born on September 15, 1929 in New York, United States. Gell-Mann is a famous American physicist and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics, and he is regarded as one of the most important physicists of the 20th century. In the 1960s, he proposed that subatomic particles (neutrons and protons) are composed of "quark" particles, hence the name "father of quarks".
Born into a Jewish family, Gell-Mann developed a keen interest in science from an early age and demonstrated a remarkable talent for learning. In 1943, at the age of 14, he entered the world-famous yale University, where he studied physics with the encouragement of his father, and received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951. From 1955 he taught at the California Institute of Technology. In 1969, Gell-Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the classification and interaction of elementary particles.
On May 24, 2019, Murray Gell-Mann passed away at the age of 89. Gell-Mann's outstanding scientific achievements made him a well-deserved authority on particle physics, and some even consider him one of Einstein's heirs.
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