Murray Gell-Mann - Founding the Santa Fe Institute (167/200)
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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2016 · Science & Technology
To listen to more of Murray Gell-Mann’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFxKFx-0lsQDs6oLP3SZ9BlA New York-born physicist Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019) was a theoretical physicist. His considerable contributions to physics include the theory of quantum chromodynamics. He was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. [Listener: Geoffrey West; date recorded:1997] TRANSCRIPT: In any case, in the early '80s I was a so-called Fellow of the Los Alamos lab, as you know. There were some Fellows who, like me, were consultants, and other Fellows were staff members. And we got into the habit of having lunches for the Fellows, and from the very beginning the lunches were devoted to the idea of founding an institute in Santa Fe, it was the first thing all of us thought of, an institute that would not be run by the government although it would… could certainly accept government research funds; would not be devoted to classified matters; and would be genuinely open, international and so on.
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