Murray Gell-Mann - A meeting in Moscow (123/200)
3,553 views · Published 16 May 2016 · 1:09 · Indexed 28 October 2026
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: Carl Kaysen and Paul Doty and George Kistiakowsky were in Moscow to meet with a whole bunch of science statesmen, I think one member of the Politburo, and discuss these matters. George was accompanied by his wife Elaine and of course George was Russian originally, so they treated him very, very, very well, because he was there with his wife and he had been born in Russia. He got a beautiful room in the hotel. Carl and Paul shared a much less beautiful room, and when they got into the room they said, ‘Oh shucks, I thought we'd have accommodations like George and Elaine's’. Anyway, they got down to the desk and the little man, who was this little KGB agent, who was the secretary of the All-Union Academy of Sciences, said, ‘I hear you don't like your room’. It's a marvelous story. I think his name was Pavlichenko.
More from this channel
-
0:44
David Weatherall - Entering medical school
-
1:33
Katharine Whitehorn - Embodying the 'Sluts' article
-
6:55
KG Subramanyan - Mohandas Gandhi's views on art
-
2:22
Baruch Blumberg - The link between some cancers and viruses
-
6:39
Renato Dulbecco - Three Nobels, just one class
-
2:26
Marek Edelman - Different criteria for measuring the value of human life
-
2:45
Jules Engel - So who is responsible for a great animation?
-
5:02
Eugene Garfield - Retractions in citations