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Murray Gell-Mann was born on 15th September 1929, in New York City. He obtained his B.Sc. at Yale University in 1948, and his Ph.D. in 1951 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1952 he became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, during 1952-1953 he was instructor at the University of Chicago, from…

Links to other sites Videos Murray Gell-Mann: ‘Beauty, truth and … physics?’ from TED Talks. Murray Gell-Mann: ‘The ancestor of language’ from TED Talks.

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Jan Tinbergen’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1969 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I feel that I should speak in the name of three entities, if I may say so. First of all in the name of all economists, that it looks as if from now…

“If You Desire Peace, Cultivate Justice” by Juan Somavia Director-General of the International Labour Organization 7 May 2002 In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 1969, the Nobel Committee referred to the motto enshrined in the foundations of the ILO’s original building in Geneva, “Si vis pacem, cole justitiam”…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ivar Waller, member of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Elementary particle physics which is now so vigorous was still in its infancy when Murray Gell-Mann in 1953 published the first of the papers which have been honoured with this years Nobel Prize in physics. The physicists were,…