{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Johnson covers science for \u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844905734418,"sku":"9780679756880","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_01778feb-653b-4417-bc84-64f79138de0c.jpg?v=1737336254","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/strange-beauty-murray-gell-mann-and-the-revolution-in-twentieth-century-physics-9780679756880","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}