Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann dead at 89

By THE MANILA TIMES

May 27, 2019 12:05 pm

Winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics and driving force behind the theory of quarks, Murray Gell-Mann (L), pictured in 2011, has died at 89. AFP PHOTO

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Murray Gell-Mann, a physicist who theorized the existence of the quark and won a Nobel Prize for his method of classifying particles, has died at age 89, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) said.

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