With a New Afterword Our knowledge of fundamental physics contains not one fruitful idea that does not carry the name of Murray Gell-Mann.--Richard Feynman Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel...
No scientist has done more to shape our understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner considered by many colleagues to be the most brilliant physicist of his generation. His discovery of the quark and the Eightfold Way were cornerstones for all that...