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...have spawned its own research center, the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. And while some scientists dismiss complexity as just a trendy buzz word used to attract grant money, the field has drawn not only young hotshots but also Nobel laureates in physics, including Philip Anderson and Murray Gell-Mann, and Economics laureate Kenneth Arrow...
...physicist who laid the intellectual groundwork for this now mainstream theory, Caltech's Murray Gell-Mann, long ago won the Nobel Prize. But it was not until last week that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored the men who first detected the existence of quarks. Americans Jerome Friedman, 60, and Henry Kendall, 63, of M.I.T., and Richard Taylor, 60, a Canadian working at Stanford, share the physics award for discoveries made at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center beginning in the late 1960s...
...This was really the great 'aha' moment," MacCready says. Stopping along the way in Aspen to visit Murray Gell-Mann, who was vacationing there, MacCready announced that he had figured out how to win the Kremer prize. "He was that definite," Gell-Mann recalls...
What makes MacCready a font of creativity? Nobel laureate physicist Murray Gell-Mann, a Pasadena neighbor and close friend, attributes that quality to MacCready's outlook: "He approaches nature and daily life with an innocent sense of wonder. He approaches problems and learning about new things in the ! same way, without strongly held, preconceived notions. When he sees something in daily life, when he sees something in nature, he takes a fresh view...
Glashow finally begins to provide a clear history in his discussion of Murray Gell-Mann's conjecture that the fundamental elements underlying all of the mysterious particles are quarks. It is not surprising that Glashow is at his best here. Quarks are the jumping board for much of his brilliant theoretical synthesis of the strong and weak nuclear forces and electromagnetism. This is his turf: it was Glashow's prediction that a fourth, "charm" quark existed, which resolved many of the difficulties of Gell-Mann's theory...