Remembering Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the subatomic particle, the quark. Gell-Mann was a prodigy who became one of the founding fathers of particle physics. Employing complex mathematics, he proposed a set of rules based on the symmetries in the fundamental forces of nature. Later in life, his interests branched out in to other areas including biodiversity and concepts of simplicity and complexity. His career intersected with many of the great 20th Century physicists including Hans Bethe, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Richard Feynman.