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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