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Murray Gell-Mann
May 30 , 2019
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- The 1969-Nobel prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann has died at the age of 89 in New Mexico, USA.
- He devised a method for sorting subatomic particles into simple groups of eight (8) based on their spin, electric charge and other characteristics.
- He named this method “eightfold way” after Buddhist Eightfold Path to enlightenment.
- He was the first scientist who theorised “quarks” which forms the basis for our physical understanding of the universe.
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