Word: manne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old Yale freshman wanted to study archaeology, but his father thought engineering was a more promising profession. "I couldn't stand engineering," recalls Caltech's Professor Murray Gell-Mann, the former child prodigy, "so I put down the closest thing, physics." It was a happy choice. Last week, for his brilliant work on the basic nature of the atom, Gell-Mann, now 40, won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics...
...early 1950s, when Gell-Mann made his debut as a theoretical physicist, the discovery of a host of strange and short-lived bits of matter had turned the once orderly world of subatomic physics into what scientists called a "zoo." To bring some order out of the chaos, Gell-Mann-at the age of 24 -formulated his Theory of Strangeness (named after Francis Bacon's line: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion"). He assigned a value to each of the puzzling new particles: a "strangeness" number based on their peculiar rate...
...settling down in their lavish surroundings, both students and faculty inevitably indulged in less serious gripes. Even the perfection of the soundproofing upsets musicians grown accustomed to the cozy cacophony of the old building. Violinist Robert Mann of the Juilliard String Quartet, for instance, finds the quiet somewhat disquieting. "I like distant musical sounds; it reminds me I'm in a conservatory." Told that a student had complained because "the library is too comfortable; I can't take notes there," Mann admitted that the opulent new building takes getting used to. "It reminds me of what my father...
...three were driven to Billerica for four hours and from there to the District 10 cellblock, instead of being allowed to go directly to the cellblock after posting bond at the Courthouse. "A bondsman was on his way to the Courthouse" as Mann, Olson, and Nies were being taken away, Homans said...
...evening, and they were released from the District 10 cellblock at 11:30 p.m. after posting it. The next morning, Judge Charles I. Taylor of the Roxbury Municipal Court-the same court which will hold the "hearing on problable cause" on November 7-raised the bail to $7500 for Mann and $5000 each for Olson and Nies. They then began their four-day stay in the Charles Street Jail...