| Murray Gell-Mann  Born: 15-Sep-1929
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Weak interaction of particles Father: Arthur Gell-Mann (ran a foreign-language school)
Mother: Pauline Reichstein
Brother: Benedict Gell-Mann (photographer, reporter)
Wife: J. Margaret Dow (m. 19-Apr-1955, d. 1981, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Elizabeth Sarah
Son: Nicholas Webster
Wife: Marcia Southwick (m. 1992, one stepson)
Son: Nicholas Southwick Levis (stepson)
University: BS Physics, Yale University (1948)
University: PhD Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1951)
Professor: University of Chicago (1952-55)
Professor: California Institute of Technology (1955-)
Scholar: Los Alamos National Laboratory (1982-)
Scholar: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
Administrator: Santa Fe Institute (Founding Member)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1969
E. O. Lawrence Award 1966
Albert Einstein Medal 2005
Humanist of the Year 2005
American Association for the Advancement of Science 1994
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society 1993
American Physical Society 1960
Century Association
Cosmos Club
CSICOP Fellow
Explorers Club
GivingSpace
International Academy of Humanism Laureate
JASON
John Kerry for President
MacArthur Foundation Director (1979-2002)
National Academy of Sciences 1960
Rand Corporation Consultant
Wildlife Conservation Society 1994
Explorers Club
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
The Third Culture
Official Website:
http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/People/mgm/
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