quarks and antiquarks and the three kinds of charge, denoted red, green, and blue, together with the gauge gluons (shown in black) that mediate the gauge fields that bind them. Each quark also carries baryonic charge, electromagnetic charge, and hypercharge.

Quarks

Image: quarks and antiquarks and the three kinds of charge, denoted red, green, and blue, together with the gauge gluons (shown in black) that mediate the gauge fields that bind them. Each quark also carries baryonic charge, electromagnetic charge, and hypercharge.

Links

Nobel Prize award ceremony speech by Murray Gell-Mann >

Gerald t’Hooft’s website >

Historic images from the Brookhaven National Laboratory >

Multimedia

Ted Talks: Murray Gell-Mann on beauty and truth in physics >

Murray Gell-Mann on the discovery of quarks: the Newton Channel >

Author: Simon Saunders >