Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. He is currently Distinguished Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute as well as the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, where he joined the faculty in 1955. He is the author of The Quark and the Jaguar, published in 1994, in which his ideas on simplicity and complexity are presented to a general readership. In 1988 Professor Gell-Mann was listed on the United Nations Environmental Program’s Roll of Honor for Environmental Achievement (The Global 500).  He also shared the 1989 Ettore Majorana “Science for Peace” prize. He was on the U.S. President’s Science Advisory Committee from 1969 to 1972 and the President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology from 1994 to 2001.