toobfreak
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Murray Gell-Mann, one of the last living great pioneers in particle physics has passed away yesterday. Winner of the Nobel Prize (back when it really meant something before they gave one to Obama for "peace"), who was pivotal in the discovery and defining of quarks (not the guy on Deep Space Nine) and also helped discover and define the weak interaction of atomic particles, the force carrier for nuclear radioactive decay.
Other major contributions were in pion research and quark chromodynamics among other things.
Quarks are the building blocks of all hadrons, which include the proton and neutron, the weak force carrier includes the w and z high mass gauge bosons. Pions are another form of hadron and chromodynamics is the study of the flavors and spin of quarks.
RIP
Murray Gell-Mann - Wikipedia
Other major contributions were in pion research and quark chromodynamics among other things.
Quarks are the building blocks of all hadrons, which include the proton and neutron, the weak force carrier includes the w and z high mass gauge bosons. Pions are another form of hadron and chromodynamics is the study of the flavors and spin of quarks.
RIP
Murray Gell-Mann - Wikipedia
