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“The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three at a time in different ways to make all the heavy particles we knew. ... I needed a name for them and called them quarks, after the taunting cry of the gulls, "Three quarks for Muster mark," from Finnegan's Wake by the Irish writer James Joyce.”

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Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann, born on September 15, 1929, is a renowned physicist. He made significant contributions to the field of particle physics, particularly with his proposal of the quark model, which has been crucial in understanding the structure of fundamental particles. more

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