Murray Gell-Mann

Nobel Laureate & The Santa Fe Institute Co-Founder

Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical work on elementary particles. A graduate of Yale University and MIT , he taught at the California Institute of Technology from 1955 until his retirement in 1993. In 1984, he helped establish the Santa Fe Institute. A longtime director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Gell-Mann also served as a board member of the Wildlife Conservation Society and belonged to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Royal Society of London.

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