noun
United States physicist noted for his studies of subatomic particles (born in 1929)
• Syn: ↑Murray Gell-Mann
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑nuclear physicist
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/gel mahn", -man"/, n.
Murray, born 1929, U.S. physicist: devised a system for classifying elementary particles and postulated theory of quarks; Nobel prize 1969.
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[ˌgel 'män]Useful english dictionary. 2012.