Strange Beauty
Subtitle: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
Publisher: Knopf
Published: October 12, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780679437642
Subjects: United States; Nuclear Physics; Science; Biography/Autobiography; Science / Physics; Gell-Mann, Murray; Biography; Nuclear physicists
First sentence: Scouring the old Manhattan telephone directories from the early years of the century, now relegated to decaying spools of microfilm in a dark corner of the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, one looks in vain for the curious appellation "Gell-Man."