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Murray Gell-Mann

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Dates

September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019

Authorized Form of Name

Gell-Mann, Murray

Additional Forms of Names

Gell-Mann, M. (Murray)

Gell-Mann, Murray, 1929-

Mann, Murray Gell-

Biography

Abstract

Murray Gell-Mann was Professor and Distinguished Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute (1993-2019). Other institutional affiliations include the California Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago. His research interests include the classification of elementary particles and quarks.

Important Dates

September 15, 1929Birth, New York (N.Y.).

1944 – 1948Obtained BS, Yale University, New Haven (Conn.).

1948 – 1951Obtained PhD in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (Mass.).

1951 – 1952Member, Institute for Advanced Study.

1952 – 1954Instructor and Associate Professor, Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago.

1955 – 2019Associate Professor of Physics (1955-1956); Professor of Physics (1956-1967); Robert A. Millikan Professor, Lauritesen Laboratory for High Energy Physics (1967-1993); and Robert A. Millikan Professor Emeritus, (1993-present), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Calif.).

1959Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, American Physical Society.

1960Member, National Academy of Sciences.

1960Fellow, American Physical Society.

1964Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1969Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions".

1969 – 1973Member, President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).

1971Member, Board of Directors, AeroVironment, Inc.

1973 – 1979Chair, Board of Trustees, Aspen Center for Physics.

1974 – 1988Citizen Regent, Smithsonian Institution.

1979 – 1981Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1979 – 2002Member, Board of Directors (1979-2002) and Chair, World Environment and Resources Committee (1982-1997), John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

1982 – 2019Laboratory Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

1984 – 1993Member, Board of Directors, California Nature Conservancy.

1984 – 2019Chair, Board of Trustees (1984-1985); Member, Board of Trustees (1984-present); and Co-Chair, Science Board (1985-2000), Santa Fe Institute.

1988 – 2019Member, Science Advisory Committee, Leakey Foundation.

1993Member, American Philosophical Society.

1993 – 2019Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Conservation International.

1993 – 2019Professor and Distinguished Fellow, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe (N.M.).

1994Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

1994 – 2001Member, President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology.

1994 – 2019Member, Board of Trustees, Wildlife Conservation Society.

1995 – 2019Visiting Professor, University of New Mexico.

1999 – 2019Member, Advisory Board, Network Physics.

May 24, 2019Death, Santa Fe (N.M.).

Occupation

Quantum physicist.

Places

Birth

New York (N.Y.)

Undergraduate Education

New Haven (Conn.)

Graduate Education

Cambridge (Mass.)

Employment

Pasadena (Calif.)

Santa Fe (N.M.)

Death

Santa Fe (N.M.)

Subjects

Electron gas.

Elementary particles.

Quantum theory.

Quarks.

Solid state physics.

Relationships

People

Family

Gell-Mann, Elizabeth

Daughter.

Gell-Mann, J. Margaret Dow

Wife, married 1955.

Gell-Mann, Nicholas

Son.

Advisors & Collaborators

Brueckner, Keith A.

Collaborated to show that the random phase approximation (RPA) can be derived by summing a series of Feynman diagrams and both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Coleman, Sidney, 1937-2007

Advised by Gell-Mann at California Institute of Technology, "The Structure of Strong Interaction Symmetries."

Hartle, J. B. (James B.)

Advised by Gell-Mann at California Institute of Technology, "Complex Angular Momentum in Three-Particle Potential Scattering."

Serber, R. (Robert)

Collaborated on the discovery of quarks.

Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002

PhD advisor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wilson, Kenneth G. (Kenneth Geddes), 1936-2013

Advised by Gell-Mann at California Institute of Technology, "An investigation of the Low equation and the Chew-Mandelstam equations."

Colleagues

Adelberger, Eric G.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Allison, Samuel King, 1900-1965

Both employed at University of Chicago, Institute for Nuclear Studies.

Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Anderson, Carl D. (Carl David), 1905-1991

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Bahcall, John N.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Baldeschwieler, John D., 1933-

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Bardeen, James Maxwell, 1939-

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Barish, B. C. (Barry Clark), 1936-

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Bennett, Ivan L., Jr.

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Boehm, Felix

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Bowman, J. D. (J. David)

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Brown, Harold, 1927-2019

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Buchsbaum, Solomon J.

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Cairns, Theodore L. (Theodore Lesueur), 1914-1994

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Charney, Jule G.

Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Christy, Robert F.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Cole, Julian D.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Coleman, James S., 1926-1995

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Dashen, Roger F.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

David, Edward E.

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Deser, S. (Stanley)

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Drell, Sidney D. (Sidney David), 1926-

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994

Both employed at California Institute of Technology and worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

DuMond, Jesse W. M. (Jesse William Monroe), 1892-1976

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Eisenstein, James P. (James Philip)

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Epstein, Paul S. (Paul Sophus), 1883-1966

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Everhart, Thomas E.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Ference, Michael, 1911-

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

Both employed at University of Chicago, Institute for Nuclear Studies.

Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Fitch, Val L., 1923-2015

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Fletcher, James Chipman, 1919-1991

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Fowler, William A.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Freedman, Daniel Z.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Friedman, Herbert, 1916-2000

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Garwin, Richard L.

Both employed at University of Chicago, Institute for Nuclear Studies.

Gates, S. James

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Glashow, Sheldon L.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Glauber, Roy J., 1925-

Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Goldberger, Marvin L.

Both employed at Institute of Technology.

Gould, Roy W. (Roy Walter), 1927-

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Haggerty, Patrick E.

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Hellwarth, Robert Willis, 1930-2021

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Hewlett, William R.

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Holdren, John P.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Hornig, Donald F., 1920-2013

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Kaspi, Victoria Michelle, 1967-

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Kimble, H. Jeff (Harry Jeffrey), 1949-

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Kinoshita, T. (Toichiro)

Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Koonin, Steven E.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Kryder, Mark H.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Lange, Andrew

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Lauritsen, Charles Christian, 1892-1968

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Lee, T. D., 1926-

Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Leighton, Robert B.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007

Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.

MacDonald, Gordon J. (Gordon James), 1929-2002

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

McKee, Christopher, 1942-

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

McKeown, R. D.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Merzbacher, Eugen

Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Morse, Marston, 1892-1977

Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Nambu, Yoichiro, 1921-2015

Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Oddone, Piermaria J.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Olsen, Kenneth H.

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Pake, G. E. (George Edward)

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Politzer, H. David, 1949-

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Rosenfeld, Arthur H., 1926-

Both employed at University of Chicago, Institute for Nuclear Studies.

Schwarz, John H.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Sciulli, Frank J.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Simon, Herbert A. (Herbert Alexander), 1916-2001

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Slichter, Charles P.

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Smith, Lloyd H., 1924-

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Spitzer, Frank, 1926-

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Tape, Gerald Frederick, 1915-2005

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Teukolsky, Saul A. (Saul Arno), 1947-

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Thorne, Kip S.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Tollestrup, Alvin

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Townes, Charles H.

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Trilling, George H.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Truxal, John G.

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Tsuei, Chang C.

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Turner, Howard Sinclair, 1911-

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981

Both employed at University of Chicago, Institute for Nuclear Studies.

Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957

Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Weyl, Hermann, 1885-1955

Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Will, Clifford M., 1946-

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 1936-

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Wise, Mark B., 1953-

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Wood, Harland G. (Harland Goff), 1907-1991

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Wyngaarden, James B., 1924-

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee.

Yang, Chen Ning, 1922-

Both employed at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Ye, Jun, 1967-

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Zweig, George

Both employed at California Institute of Technology.

Additional

Barnes, C. A.

Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005

Chew, Geoffrey F.

Cockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967

Dancoff, Sidney M., 1913-1951

Ferris, Timothy

Frautschi, Steven C., 1933-

Frieman, E. A.

Hagstrom, Warren O.

Kursunoglu, Behram, 1922-

Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992

McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-

Pines, David, 1924-2018

Ramakrishna, Alladi

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011

Ruina, J. P. (Jack P.)

Salam, Abdus, 1926-1996

Salpeter, Edwin E.

Schwinger, Julian, 1918-1994

Sciama, D. W. (Dennis William), 1926-

Sharp, D. H. (David Howland), 1938-

Szilard, Leo

Tamm, I. E. (Igor' Evgen'evich), 1895-1971

Telegdi, Val, 1922-2006

Tombrello, Thomas A.

Touschek, Bruno, 1921-

Watson, Kenneth M.

Whaling, Ward, 1923-

Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008

Wick, G. C. (Gian Carlo)

Wolfenstein, L. (Lincoln)

Yukawa, Hideki, 1907-1981

Institutions

Major Positions

California Institute of Technology. Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy

Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; Robert A. Millikan Professor, Lauritsen Laboratory for High Energy Physics; and Robert A. Millikan Professor Emeritus.

Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)

Member.

Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.)

Chair, Board of Trustees; Member, Board of Trustees; Co-Chair, Science Board; Professor; and Distinguished Fellow.

University of Chicago. Institute for Nuclear Studies

Instructor and Associate Professor.

University of New Mexico. Department of Physics & Astronomy

Visiting Professor.

Professional Activities & Affiliations

AeroVironment Inc.

Member, Board of Directors.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Fellow.

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fellow.

American Philosophical Society

Member.

American Physical Society

Received 1959 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics and Fellow.

Aspen Center for Physics

Chair, Board of Trustees.

California Nature Conservancy

Member, Board of Trustees.

Conservation International

Member, Science Advisory Committee.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Member, Board of Directors and Chair, World Environment and Resources Committee.

L.S.B. Leakey Foundation

Member, Science Advisory Committee.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Laboratory Fellow.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics

Obtained PhD in Physics (1951).

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

Member.

President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (U.S.)

Member.

Smithsonian Institution

Citizen Regent.

United States. President's Science Advisory Committee

Member.

University of California, Santa Barbara. Institute for Theoretical Physics

Member, Advisory Board.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Physics

Wildlife Conservation Society (New York, N.Y.)

Member, Board of Trustees.

Yale University. Physics Department

Obtained BS (1948).

Resources

Archival Resources

Author

A path through the atomic jungle [sound recording], 1964 April 28.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Aspen Center for Physics oral history interviews, 2004-2008.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Audio and video interviews about the life and work of Richard Garwin, 2004-2012.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

High energy physics session [sound recording], 1964 April 30.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Murray Gell-Mann papers, 1931-2001 (bulk 1955-1993).

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Oral history interview with Murray Gell-Mann, 1982 July 27.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Murray Gell-Mann, 1997 July 17 and 18.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Peoples Archive interviews with physicists, [video recording]

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Proceedings [video recording] : talks presented at the Enrico Fermi Centennial celebration. 2001 September 29.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

QFT and QCD: past, present, and future [videorecording], 2005 March 18 and 19.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Selected talks from the International Conference on the History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics [sound recording] / 1994.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Theoretical views on the new particles [typescript], 1954.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Subject

Alladi Ramakrishna papers (In private hands)

contact Dr. Alladi Ramakrishna

In private hands

Ekamara Niwas, Luz Chruch Road, Madras 600004

Behram Kursunoglu papers, 1967-1978.

Archives Division

University of Miami. Richter Library

Main Library, 8th Floor, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA

Ben Bederson interview of Larry Spruch, Sidney Borowitz and Ed Gerjuoy [videorecording], 26 July 2004.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Bruno Touschek papers, 1947-1978.

Dipartimento di Fisica

Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy

Igor E. Tamm papers, 1921-1971.

contact Tamm family

In private hands

Moscow

Keith Brueckner manuscript biography, 1986.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Alvin Virgil Tollestrup, 1994.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Oral history interview with Charles A. Barnes, 1987 July and August.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Oral history interview with D. H. Sharp, 1993 July 23.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with David Pines, 1981 April 13 and 16.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Dennis William Sciama, 1999 June 9.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Edward A. Frieman, 2006 December 4 and 5.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Edwin Ernest Salpeter, 1978 March 30.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Gordon J. MacDonald, 1986 April 16.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Jack P. Ruina, 1991 August 8.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Kenneth M. Watson, 1986 February 10.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Lincoln Wolfenstein, 1997 April 19.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Murray Gell-Mann, 1987 April 23.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Norman Ramsey, 1978 December 19, 1979 January 5 and 18.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral History interview with Petr Vogel, 2002 December 16 and 2003 January 16.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Oral history interview with Richard Phillips Feynman, 1966 March 4 to 4 February 1973.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Robert Marshak, 1970 June 15, 16, September 19, and October 4.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Roger Frederick Dashen, 1986 July 2.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Steven C. Frautschi, 2003 June 17 and 20.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Oral history interview with Thomas Tombrello, 2010 December 26-31.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Oral history interview with Valentine L. Telegdi, 2008 March 4 and 9.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Oral history interview with Ward Whaling, 1999 April-May.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Robert B. Leighton papers, 1938-1988 (bulk 1961-1988).

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Robert F. Bacher papers, 1924-1994.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Sidney M. Dancoff papers, 1949-1951.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Timothy Ferris interviews conducted for the television program, The Creation of the Universe, circa 1982-1988.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Warren O. Hagstrom interviews conducted for his book "The Scientific Community," 1960-1961.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

William G. Wagner lecture notes, 1958-1962.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Published Resources

Author

"Progress in Elementary Particle Theory: 1950-1964," in Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s, ed. Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 1989), 694-711

"Quarks, Color, and QCD," in The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s, ed. Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown, Michael Riordan, and Max Dresden (New York: Cambridge University Press: 1997), 625-633

Broken scale invariance and the light cone; Lectures. M. Gell-Mann and K. Wilson, session leaders.

Murray Gell-Mann Academy of Achievement Profile

Murray Gell-Mann Video Autobiographical Interview at Web of Stories

Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and Truth in Physics

Nonextensive entropy : interdisciplinary applications / editors, Murray Gell-Mann, Constantino Tsallis.

The eightfold way [a review, with a collection of reprints, by] Murray Gell-Mann [and] Yuval Neeman.

The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1994)

Subject

Murray Gell-Mann Nobel Prize Biography

Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)

The third culture / by John Brockman.