Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929 in Manhattan, New York City, USA) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.

Biography
He earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Yale University in 1948, and a PhD in physics from MIT in 1951. After serving as Visiting Associate Professor at Columbia University in 1954-55, he became a professor at the University of Chicago before moving to the California Institute of Technology, where he taught from 1955 until 1993.
He is currently the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech as well as a University Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica. In 1984 Gell-Mann co-founded the Santa Fe Institute — a non-profit research institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico — to study complex systems and disseminate the notion of a separate interdisciplinary study of complexity theory.

Personal life
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One of Gell-Mann's hobbies is bird watching
Gell-Mann is lefthanded
Gell-Mann has an Erdos number of 3
Gell-Mann is a Fellow of the American Physical Society; Member, National Academy of Sciences, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Gell-Mann appeared in a commercial for Enron [3]. Prizes

Gell-Mann's Home Page at SFI