Birthdate: September 15, 1929
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Died: May 24, 2019
Murray Gell-Mann, an American theoretical physicist, made groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of elementary particles. He introduced the concept of quarks as fundamental components of strongly interacting particles, developed the renormalization group in quantum field theory, and played a pivotal role in the theory of weak and strong interactions. Gell-Mann co-invented quantum chromodynamics, a theory that explains quark confinement, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his significant contributions to the field.
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