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Title: Murray Gell-Mann (1929-present) 2005 Humanist of the Year.(Biography)
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Title: The status quark: Murray Gell-Mann reflects on matter's building blocks and scientists' resistance to new ideas.(ESSAY)(Essay)
Author: Tom Siegfried
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Date: September 12, 2009
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Chapters: Murray Gell-Mann, Roger Zelazny, Bill Richardson, John French Sloan, Cormac Mccarthy, Allan Houser, Joe Kapp, John Gaw Meem, Joan Halifax, Otto Kuhler, John Crosby, Angelico Chavez, Richard Gaddes, Fritz Scholder, Glenna Goodacre, Eleanor King, Bronson M. Cutting, Willa Shalit, Laura Gilpin, Tex Austin, Dorothy Dunn, Debbie Jaramillo, Ralph Paffenbarger, Frank V. Ortiz, Jr., Roger Jones, Larry Lujack, Donald Hamilton, Anna Gunn, Witter Bynner, Ottmar Liebert, Robert S. Scott, Abraham Klausner, Greg Solano, Mary Hunter Austin, Charles H. Fahy, Baron Wolman, Ally Walker, Philip Whalen, Dorothy B. Hughes, Brad Sherwood, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Sergei Starostin, Vera Zorina, Charles Mackay, Katherine Stinson, Martha Grimes, Edward Lee Howard, Xiao Qiang, George Johnson, Louis W. Ballard, Lori Nelson, Olive Rush, Frank Willey Clancy, Jack Schaefer, Larry Delgado, David Weininger, Pascual Romero, Walt Willey, Chroma Key, Frederick Ashworth, Geoffrey West, David Coss, Jerry Apodaca, Thomas Bullene Woodward, Josh West, Arthur Seligman, Aaron Thompson, Jesus Gil Abreu, Peter Griffith, Cheryl Anne Lorance, Richard Martin Stern, Aviva, James Peter Davis, Jerry Ortiz Y Pino, Arlene Lewallen, Helmut Naumer, Barbara Buhler Lynes, Anthony Nicholls, Hope Rockefeller Aldrich, Emmi Whitehorse, Paul Ellison, Florence Birdwell, Chris Goldstein, Lucille Leggett, Roberto Mondragón, Joseph Maestas, Jack Butler, Daniel J. Crothers, Robert W. Kelly, William Howard Shuster, Al Clancy, George Ancona, Dan Namingha. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 358. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Blaine "Bill" Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is the 30th and current Governor of New Mexico. Before being elected governor, Richardson served in the Clinton administration as U.S. Ambassador to the United...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=375375 ... Read more

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The Conference on Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Cosmology and Complexity was held in honour of Professor Murray Gell-Mann's 80th birthday in Singapore on 24-26 February 2010. The conference paid tribute to Professor Gell-Mann's great achievements in the elementary particle physics. This notable birthday volume contains the presentations made at the conference by many eminent scientists, including Nobel laureates C N Yang, G 't Hooft and K Wilson. Other invited speakers include G Zweig, N Samios, M Karliner, G Karl, M Shifman, J Ellis, S Adler and A Zichichi. ... Read more

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The Conference on Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Cosmology and Complexity was held in honour of Professor Murray Gell-Mann's 80th birthday in Singapore on 24-26 February 2010. The conference paid tribute to Professor Gell-Mann's great achievements in the elementary particle physics. This notable birthday volume contains the presentations made at the conference by many eminent scientists, including Nobel laureates C N Yang, G 't Hooft and K Wilson. Other invited speakers include G Zweig, N Samios, M Karliner, G Karl, M Shifman, J Ellis, S Adler and A Zichichi. ... Read more

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Chapters: Murray Gell-Mann, Richard Smalley, Martin Walt, Nicholas A. Peppas, Kip Thorne, Anthony James Leggett, David Pines, Chien-Shiung Wu, Robert Karplus, Jorge Pullin, Chih-Tang Sah, Mikhail Shifman, Adi Bulsara, John C. Mather, Robert P. Crease, Ernest William Titterton, Fazle Hussain, Leon Cooper, Yakir Aharonov, Mark G. Raizen, L. Gary Leal, M. Yousuff Hussaini, Hassan Aref, Carlos Bustamante, Dimitri Nanopoulos, John H. Gibbons, Leo Kadanoff, Robert Resnick, Raphael Tsu, Fereydoon Family, Michael F. Shlesinger, Paul Garabedian, Robert Byron Bird, Marcela Carena, Charles H. Bennett, A. P. Balachandran, Walter S. Huxford, Charles R. Doering, Daniel Lidar, David K. Ferry, Anthony French, Julio Gea-Banacloche, Daniel D. Joseph, David A. Weitz, Carlton M. Caves, Boris Altshuler, Ali H. Nayfeh, Robert Duncan, Kurt Wiesenfeld, Joseph Lykken, Steven R. White, Andrea Prosperetti, Robert Leigh, Thomas Curtright, Stephen H. Davis, Christopher T. Hill, Gerald Fuller, Thomas S. Lundgren. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 227. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nicholas (Nikolaos) A. Peppas (born in Athens, Greece on August 25, 1948) is a chemical and biomedical engineer whose leadership in biomaterials science and engineering, drug delivery, bionanotechnology, pharmaceutical sciences, chemical and polymer engineering has led to numerous biomedical products or devices. He was educated in chemical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (D. Eng., 1971) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sc.D., 1973) under the direction of bioengineering pioneer Edward W. Merrill. Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Arteriosclerosis Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under world biomedical leaders Clark K. Colton, Kenneth A. Smith and Robert ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20887787 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Antioch Review, published by Antioch Review, Inc. on March 22, 2000. The length of the article is 355 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics.(Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Albert B. Stewart
Publication: The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2000
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Roger Penrose, Edward Witten, Murray Gell-Mann, John Archibald Wheeler, Stephen Hawking, Chen Ning Yang, Hermann Bondi, Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Hubert Reeves, Rudolf Mössbauer, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Michel Mayor, Markus Fierz, Albert Einstein Medal, Gustav Tammann. Excerpt:The Albert Einstein Medal is an award presented by the Albert Einstein Society in Bern . First given in 1979, the award is presented to people who have "rendered outstanding services" in connection with Albert Einstein each year. Recipients See also (online edition) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at This is a Chinese name ; the family name is Yang ( ) . Chen-Ning Franklin Yang Chen-Ning Franklin Yang (simplified Chinese : ; traditional Chinese : ; pinyin : Yáng Zhènníng) (born October 1, 1922) is a Chinese -American physicist who w... ... Read more

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Chapters: John Forbes Nash, Jr., Richard Feynman, Roald Hoffmann, Murray Gell-Mann, John Milnor, William Thurston, Richard Smalley, Robert Curl, Stephen Smale, Heisuke Hironaka, Vladimir Voevodsky, Ahmed Zewail, Frederick Reines, Stanley B. Prusiner, Carl Wieman, Shing-Tung Yau, John R. Stallings, Steven Weinberg, Jack Steinberger, Alan Macdiarmid, David Mumford, Frank Wilczek, Terence Tao, Yuan T. Lee, Markus Brunnermeier, Elias James Corey, Richard R. Schrock, Mario J. Molina, Dudley R. Herschbach, Sheldon Lee Glashow, John G. Thompson, Theodor W. Hänsch, David Gross, Leon Cooper, Mark G. Raizen, Kenneth G. Wilson, Robert H. Grubbs, Sloan Fellowship, Linda B. Buck, Charles Fefferman, Michael Freedman, Hugh David Politzer, John Charles Polanyi, Daniel Quillen, Vaughan Jones, Melvin Schwartz, Alan J. Heeger, Emmanuel Candès, Val Logsdon Fitch, Curtis T. Mcmullen, Karl Barry Sharpless, Rudolph A. Marcus, James Cronin, Thomas M. Liggett, Avner Friedman, Harry Kesten, Andrew Ng, Boris Aronov. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 277. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard Phillips Feynman (pronounced ; May 11, 1918 February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime, Feynman became ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25523 ... Read more

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Title: A place removed from 'the pressure of received ideas'.(COMMENT: Murray Gell-Mann)(Santa Fe Institute)
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Title: Save Murray Gell-Mann a spot in physics hall of fame.(FROM THE EDITOR)
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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 537 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Chapters: Stephen Wolfram, Murray Gell-Mann, Francisco Varela, Stuart Kauffman, Heinz Von Foerster, Ralph Abraham, Duncan J. Watts, Ilya Prigogine, Andrey Korotayev, J. A. Scott Kelso, Samuel Bowles, James Collins, Steven Strogatz, Dirk Helbing, Douglas R. White, Albert-László Barabási, Francis Heylighen, Debora Hammond, Paulien Hogeweg, Peter Turchin, Sergei P. Kurdyumov, Valentin Turchin, Michael Commons, Ernesto Estrada, Cliff Joslyn, Frederick I. Moxley, Mihajlo D. Mesarovic, Per Bak, John Henry Holland, Seth Lloyd, Dirk Brockmann, Alessandro Vespignani, Mark Newman, J. Doyne Farmer, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Richard P. Brent, Geoffrey West, Christopher Langton, Melanie Mitchell, Joshua M. Epstein, Dante R. Chialvo, Didier Sornette, Guido Caldarelli. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 183. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Andrey Korotayev ( , born 1961) is an anthropologist, economic historian, and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural studies, Near Eastern history, and mathematical modeling of social and economic macrodynamics. Born in Moscow, Andrey Korotayev attended Moscow State University, where he received a B.A. degree in 1984 and an M.A. in 1989. He earned a Ph.D. in 1993 from Manchester University, and in 1998 a Doctor of Sciences degree from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2000, he has been Professor and Director of the Anthropology of the East Center at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, and Senior Research Fellow in the Oriental Institute and Institute for African Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2003-2004, he was a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He is co-editor of the journals Social Evolution ... Read more

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Driven by instinct, the graceful Eskimo curlew flies its nine-thousand-mile route from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America and back again. Bodsworth conveys the mechanics of this single bird's remarkable flight and its instinctive search for others of its kind. The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a lost species, and indeed for all in nature that is endangered.Amazon.com Review
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin found this slim 1955novel on a shelf in the house of friends, and, struck with the "plain,succinct evocation and beauty" of Fred Bodsworth's writing, suggestedits reissue to a publisher. This is a quick, elegant, devastatingread. The Eskimo curlew was a species of shorebird that migrated (andperhaps, in extremely small numbers, still migrates) south from arcticCanada every fall, in a flight that took it eastward across Canada,and then, after feeding, south over the Atlantic to SouthAmerica--this latter journey nearly 2,500 miles of nonstop flight. Thecurlew was almost unique among shorebirds for its ability to make thisgrueling passage.

Bodsworth, a respected ornithologist, makes us care about hisfictional bird protagonist--a lone curlew in search of a mate--whilestill cautiously riding the line between description andanthropomorphism. Of his curlew preparing for a mate, he writes: "Hewaited within the borders of his territory, flying in tighteningcircles and calling excitedly as the other bird came nearer. Thefemale was coming. The three empty summers that the male had waitedvainly and alone on his breeding territory were a vague, tormentingmemory, now almost lost in a brain so keenly keyed to instinctiveresponses that there was little capacity for conscious thought ormemory."

The demise of this species at the hands of hunters and hungryconsumers was so rapid and thorough that the "millions that darkenedthe sky" in Newfoundland in the 1870s during their annual migrationwere reduced to only a few lone fliers by the 1890s. An afterword byNobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann and line drawings byAbigail Rorer add context to this remarkable book. --MariaDolan ... Read more

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Haunting and lyrical
This book was first published in 1955 and I remember reading it in the early 1970's. And I remember getting choked up with tears in my eyes as I read the story of the last curlew. Well, it is 2010 and I reread the book and still got choked up with tears in my eyes!

Fred Bodsworth has written an enduring story of the Eskimo Curlew, once plentiful like the passenger pigeon and now due to man's careless regard for nature, extinct. There have been some unconfirmed sightings in Nova Scotia (2006), but the last confirmed sighting was 1981 and the last photograph of the species was taken in 1962.

The short novel follows a male curlew as he navigates the seasons and frantically tries to find a mate. The book is peppered with prose as lyrical as poetry,yet contains facts that help the reader understand the curlew and its extinction.

Whether you are a bird watcher or nature lover or just someone who likes a good story, this book is a beautifully written essay combining science and prose.

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This book written about the incredible migration flight of the now extinct Eskimo Curlew, told by the Curlew himself, is oneof the most memorable books I have read, and I have read a lot of books.It is at once an interesting biological insight into one of natures many remarkable creatures, an entertaining story told by the curlew himself, and a truly heart wrenching expose about ecological conservation without ever being prostelyting.It is impossible not to fall in love with this anthropormophism of a bird, and, for me, not possible to forget this little gem of a book.

A Book for All Ages. A Book for All Time.
This is a beautiful, moving, and, at times, emotionally wrenching short book.It can be read in an evening or two, but will resonate much longer.The simplicity of style renders this as highly appropriate for younger readers; the complexity of meaning renders it as highly appropriate for all readers.I can think of few, indeed, to whom I would not recommend it.

Last of the Curlews, by Bodsworth
This is one of the finest books I have ever read, informative but moving, which is quite a feat for a slim volume of about 125 pages.It follows an Eskimo Curlew over the course of a year while interspersing this fictional story with factual info on the history and almost total demise of this beautiful seabird.It's hard not to be emotionally affected by this book.It was written in 1955 but truly is as important now as it was then--perhaps more.

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This was a somewhat mediocre quality book and it was a paperback, not hardcover.Much too expensive for the quality received. ... Read more