Physicist
Murray Gell-Mann
Predicted the quark and named it from a line in Finnegans Wake. He won the Nobel Prize for bringing order to the particle zoo.
Murray Gell-Mann was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elementary particles. Gell-Mann introduced the concept of quarks as the fundamental building blocks of the strongly interacting particles, and the renormalization group as a foundational element of quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. Murray Gell-Mann received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.
- Born
- 1929-09-15, New York, New York, USAA Sunday
- Died
- 2019-05-24, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USAA Friday, aged 89
- At birth
- Sun in Virgo, Moon in Aquarius
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
Died
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1929-09-15, New York, New York, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 22°18′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aquarius | 13°59′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Libra | 18°44′ | Direct |
| Venus | Leo | 17°58′ | Direct |
| Mars | Libra | 16°03′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 15°45′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 24°08′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Aries | 10°04′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Virgo | 1°54′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Cancer | 19°22′ | Direct |
Death Chart
2019-05-24, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/Denverthe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 3°17′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aquarius | 12°07′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Gemini | 7°13′ | Direct |
| Venus | Taurus | 11°21′ | Direct |
| Mars | Cancer | 5°33′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 21°33′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 20°02′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Taurus | 4°17′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Pisces | 18°30′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Capricorn | 22°56′ | Retrograde |
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Murray Gell-Mann was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.