Fifty Years of Quarks... More Particles to Discover!
Category: SCIENCE
Fifty years ago, in 1964, physicists Murray Gell-Mann at Caltech and George Zweig at CERN came up with the idea of the quark as a response to the bewildering number of elementary particles that were being discovered at the huge "atom smasher" labs sprouting up all over the world.
By Dr. Sten Odenwald, ContributorAstronomer, NASA Heliophysics Education Consortium, 2014-12-09