{"product_id":"9780679756880","title":"Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith a New Afterword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Our knowledge of fundamental physics contains not one fruitful idea that does not carry the name of Murray Gell-Mann.\"—Richard Feynman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his models of the quark and the Eightfold Way.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn into a Jewish immigrant family on New York's East 14th Street, Gell-Mann's prodigious talent was evident from an early age—he entered Yale at 15, completed his Ph.D. at 21, and was soon identifying the structures of the world's smallest components and illuminating the elegant symmetries of the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully balanced in its portrayal of an extraordinary and difficult man, interpreting the concepts of advanced physics with scrupulous clarity and simplicity, \u003cb\u003eStrange Beauty\u003c\/b\u003e is a tour-de-force of both science writing and biography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019859411184,"sku":"9780679756880","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679756880_p0.jpg?v=1769898402","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679756880","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}