{"product_id":"strange-beauty-murray-gell-mann-and-the-revolution-in-twentieth-century-physics-9780679756880","title":"Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics","description":"With a New Afterword \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Our knowledge of fundamental physics contains not one fruitful idea that does not carry the name of Murray Gell-Mann.\"--Richard Feynman \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his models of the quark and the Eightfold Way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn into a Jewish immigrant family on New York's East 14th Street, Gell-Mann's prodigious talent was evident from an early age--he entered Yale at 15, completed his Ph.D. at 21, and was soon identifying the structures of the world's smallest components and illuminating the elegant symmetries of the universe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeautifully balanced in its portrayal of an extraordinary and difficult man, interpreting the concepts of advanced physics with scrupulous clarity and simplicity, \u003cb\u003eStrange Beauty\u003c\/b\u003e is a tour-de-force of both science writing and biography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679756880\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.95h x 5.22w x 1.03d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/22\/2000 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/03\/2000 pg. 109\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"George Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43732975354037,"sku":"9780679756880","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_17ec39be-1c0e-4ded-bca8-fd4fe47f6140.jpg?v=1710256334","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/strange-beauty-murray-gell-mann-and-the-revolution-in-twentieth-century-physics-9780679756880","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}