Strange Beauty
George Johnson
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 followed in particle physics, the effort to understand the very stuff of creation. In this, the first biography of Gell-Mann, George Johnson tells the story of a remarkable life.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN-13
- 9781446485286
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Particle physicsMurray Gell-Mann biographyScientific discovery
Awards
- Royal Society Science Book PrizeShortlisted(2001)
Other awarded books from George Johnson
- Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order
- The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
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