PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF MURRAY GELL-MANN'S 80TH BIRTHDAY: QUANTUM MECHANICS, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, QUANTUM COSMOLOGY AND COMPLEXITY - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9814338621 ISBN 13: 9789814338622

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2010

Synopsis

The Conference on Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Cosmology and Complexity was held in honour of Professor Murray Gell-Mann's 80th birthday in Singapore on 24–26 February 2010. The conference paid tribute to Professor Gell-Mann's great achievements in the elementary particle physics.

This notable birthday volume contains the presentations made at the conference by many eminent scientists, including Nobel laureates C N Yang, G 't Hooft and K Wilson. Other invited speakers include G Zweig, N Samios, M Karliner, G Karl, M Shifman, J Ellis, S Adler and A Zichichi.

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About the Author:

Murray Gell-Mann, born September 15, 1929, won the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. His contributions span the entire history of particle physics, from the early days of the particle zoo to the modern day QCD. Along the way, even as he proposed new quantum numbers to bring order into the zoo, he had fun in naming them. And thus was born Strangeness, Flavor, Hadrons, Baryons, Leptons, the Eightfold Way, Color, Quarks, Gluons and, with Harald Fritzsch, the standard field theory of strong interactions, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). He also proposed with Richard Feynman the V-A theory of beta decay. Gell-Mann discovered the Current Algebra, proposed (with Levy) the sigma model of pions and the see-saw mechanism for the neutrino masses.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9814338621
• ISBN 13: 9789814338622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 728
• Editor: H Fritzsch, K K Phua