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Murray Gell-Mann

1929–2019

Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his work on the classification of elementary particles, including the discovery of the quark model. He was a polymath with deep interests in linguistics, archaeology, and complex adaptive systems, and he co-founded the Santa Fe Institute. Known for his sharp intellect and occasional arrogance, he revolutionized particle physics and contributed to the study of complexity.

Physics

The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics (biography, but includes his ideas)
The Eightfold Way: A Theory of Strong Interaction Symmetry
Lectures on Complex Adaptive Systems (Santa Fe Institute)
Various papers on particle physics, including 'A Schematic Model of Baryons and Mesons' (1964)
Interviews on 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out' (with Feynman references)
Contributions to the Santa Fe Institute Bulletin

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