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Murray Gell-Mann - Other work with the MacArthur Foundation (185/200)

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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2016 · Science & Technology

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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: I'm still interested in preserving some of the research relevant… the creation of research networks doing scientific research on topics relevant to mental health. I still think that's important and we should do it. I'm trying to revive some of it. I've been involved very much with the peace and international co-operation program. And now, somewhat in the spirit of the kind of integration that I've been discussing, the Foundation has put together these programs so that the population program in developing countries, the conservation and sustainable development program in tropical countries, and the world peace and international co-operation program have all been merged together in a program called Global… Global something or other and Sustainability… let me see what it's called... Global Security! Global Security and Sustainability. It was a fight for a while to preserve the individual programs within the integrated one, because I didn't think that, several of us didn't think that just a… a fully integrated mass would be the… the best way to do things, but now I think it's structured pretty well. There are the three individual programs and then a lot of cross-cutting initiatives as well, and I think that's pretty good.

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