Murray Gell-Mann
- Born: September 15, 1929 (New York, New York)
Education
- 1944–1948: Yale University
- 1948: BS, Yale University (Physics)
- 1948–1950: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1951: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1951–1952: Institute for Advanced Study, Member
- 1952–1954: University of Chicago, Instructor and Associate Professor, Institute for Nuclear Studies
- 1955–1956: California Institute of Technology, Associate Professor of Physics
- 1956–1967: California Institute of Technology, Professor of Physics
- 1967–1993: California Institute of Technology, Robert A. Millikan Professor, Lauritesen Laboratory for High Energy Physics
- 1993–present: Santa Fe Institute, Professor and Distinguished Fellow
Other Positions
- 1969–1973: President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), Member
- 1993–present: California Institute of Technology, Robert A. Millikan Professor Emeritus
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1971–present: Member, Board of Directors, AeroVironment, Inc.
- 1973–1979: Chair, Board of Trustees, Aspen Center for Physics
- 1974–1988: Citizen Regent, Smithsonian Institution
- 1979–1981: Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 1979–2002: Member, Board of Directors, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- 1982–1997: Chair, World Environment and Resources Committee, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- 1982–present: Laboratory Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- 1984–1985: Chair, Board of Trustees, Santa Fe Institute
- 1984–1993: Member, Board of Directors, California Nature Conservancy
- 1984–present: Member, Board of Trustees, Santa Fe Institute
- 1985–2000: Co-Chair, Science Board, Santa Fe Institute
- 1988–present: Member, Science Advisory Committee, Leakey Foundation
- 1993–present: Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Conservation International
- 1994–present: Member, Board of Trustees, Wildlife Conservation Society
- 1994–2001: Member, President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology
- 1995–present: Visiting Professor, University of New Mexico
- 1999–present: Member, Advisory Board, Network Physics
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1959: American Physical Society, Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
- 1960: American Physical Society, Fellow
- 1960: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1964: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow
- 1969: Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1993: American Philosophical Society, Member
- 1994: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
Archival Resources
California Institute of Technology, Institute Archives, Pasadena, California
Online Finding Aid
Oral History Interviews
- 1982: American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
- 1987: Available Online
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
Murray Gell-Mann, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1994)
George Johnson, Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)
Murray Gell-Mann, "Progress in Elementary Particle Theory: 1950-1964," in Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s, ed. Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 1989), 694-711
Murray Gell-Mann, "Quarks, Color, and QCD," in The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s, ed. Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown, Michael Riordan, and Max Dresden (New York: Cambridge University Press: 1997), 625-633
