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DescriptionWith 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 Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his models of the quark and the Eightfold Way. Born into a Jewish immigrant family on New Yorks East 14th Street, Gell-Manns prodigious talent was evident from an early age--he entered Yale at 15, completed his Ph.D. at 21, and was soon identifying the structures of the worlds smallest components and illuminating the elegant symmetries of the universe. Beautifully balanced in its portrayal of an extraordinary and difficult man, interpreting the concepts of advanced physics with scrupulous clarity and simplicity, Strange Beauty is a tour-de-force of both science writing and biography.About the authorGeorge Johnson covers science for The New York Times. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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