Complex sentence: The word "quark" was coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann (b.1929) in its present sense, the word having been taken from the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce.
Split into simpler sentences: The word "quark" was coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann (b.1929) in its present sense. It originally comes from the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce.