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Murray Gell-Mann

    15. September 1929 – 24. Mai 2019

    Dieser Nobelpreisträger der Physik leistete bahnbrechende Beiträge zur Theorie der Elementarteilchen. Seine angesehene akademische Laufbahn umfasste bedeutende Professuren an führenden Institutionen, wo er sich intensiv mit theoretischer Physik beschäftigte. Er war auch ein angesehener Mitbegründer eines renommierten Instituts für interdisziplinäre Forschung. Sein Vermächtnis liegt in der fundamentalen Weiterentwicklung unseres Verständnisses der grundlegendsten Bausteine des Universums.

    Deception
    50 Years of Quarks
    Das Quark und der Jaguar
    • 50 Years of Quarks

      • 518 Seiten
      • 19 Lesestunden

      Today it is known that the atomic nuclei are composed of smaller constituents, the quarks. A quark is always bound with two other quarks, forming a baryon or with an antiquark, forming a meson. The quark model was first postulated in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann — who coined the name “quark” from James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake — and by George Zweig, who then worked at CERN. In the present theory of strong interactions — Quantum Chromodynamics proposed by H Fritzsch and Gell-Mann in 1972 — the forces that bind the quarks together are due to the exchange of eight gluons.On the 50th anniversary of the quark model, this invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievements in the elementary particle physics that eventuated from that beautiful model. Written by an international team of distinguished physicists, each of whom have made major developments in the field, the volume provides an essential overview of the present state to the academics and researchers.

      50 Years of Quarks2015
      4,0
    • Deception

      From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating

      • 346 Seiten
      • 13 Lesestunden

      From Internet-dating profiles to Native American folktales to the photo trickery of Hollywood gossip magazines, this volume explores deception and offers insights from leading figures in disparate fields, drawing out surprising commonalities. For the first time, one broadly accessible volume pulls together classic philosophical debates on deception with examinations of contemporary issues, including stock market fraud and terrorism. Deception offers a unique perspective on the state of the readers will find scholars from biology and physics in conversation with experts in mass media and culture, and archaeologists engaged with ideas from military strategists. As the essays make clear, deception touches virtually every aspect of our lives; in fact, recent psychological research suggests that we each tell at least two to three lies per day. Throughout the animal kingdom, survival and reproduction depend upon successful deceptions. But while deception has captured the interest of philosophers, scientists, warriors, and artists over thousands of years, our knowledge of the subject is limited. At the same time, new technologies have made deception more commonplace, more dangerous, and more difficult to detect than ever. Deception is a particularly timely and insightful work. Its scope and subject make it compelling reading for a broad readership.

      Deception2009
    • "Es ist immer ein Vergnügen, mitzuerleben, wie ein erstklassiger Denker mit den größten Geheimnissen ringt und gleichzeitig entschlossen der Versuchung widersteht, irgendeinem Mystizismus zu verfallen." (Carl Sagan)§Der Physiker Gell-Mann, Erfinder der Quarks und vielleicht der bedeutendste Physiker der 2. Jahrhunderthälfte, stellt in seinem ersten für ein breiteres Publikum geschriebenen Werk sein Konzept der Komplexität vor. Es zeigt, wie man das Einfache und das Komplexe zu einem Modell zusammenfügen kann, um die Welt besser zu verstehen und Lösungen zu finden, die helfen, unsere natürliche Umwelt zu erhalten.§

      Das Quark und der Jaguar1994
      3,8