
Murray Gell-Mann
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Murray Gell-Mann (; September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elementary particles. Gell-Mann introduced the concept of quarks as the fundamental building blocks of the strongly interacting particles, and the renormalization group as a foundational element of quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. Murray Gell-Mann received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions and discoveries
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Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel-winning physicist who developed quark idea, dies at 89
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Murray Gell-Mann, Who Peered at Particles and Saw the Universe, Dies at 89 (Published 2019)