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Three quarks for Muster Murray!

A conversation with Murray Gell-Mann at home

Date:	September 16, 2009
Speakers:	Murray Gell-Mann
Topics:	Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Prize 1969

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In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Santa Fe Institute and Murray Gell-Mann's eightieth birthday, TSN visited Murray to discuss life, the universe and everything.

Murray named the quark after the sound made by ducks. He took the spelling from a line in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: