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Uploaded by on Oct 8, 2007

Google Tech Talks
March 14, 2007

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Murray Gell-Mann is one of the largest living legends in physics. He's also been described as The Man With Five Brains, and it's no puzzle why: He was admitted to Yale at 15, got his PhD from MIT at 21, and is an international advisor on the environment. He speaks 13 languages fluently (at last count), and has expertise in such far-ranging fields as natural history, historical linguistics, archaeology, bird-watching, depth psychology, and the theory of complex adaptive systems.

Oh yeah... he also coined the term "quark," after developing key aspects of the modern theory of quantum physics... for which he earned an unshared Nobel prize in physics in...

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  • I worked at Caltech with Murray in the 70's. I fixed his VW bug in the parking lot one day so he could get home. He said "Newton would be ashamed of me. Here I am a Nobel laureate and I have no idea how to make this thing go!" I felt really smart for about 2 milliseconds!

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  • Amen!

  • sorry for the late answer you are a idiot

  • This is a long video but i liked it:-)

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