Strange Beauty

<p>Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann the brilliant irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his models of the quark and the Eightfold Way.</p><p><br></p><p>Beautifully balanced in its portrayal of an extraordinary and difficult man interpreting the concepts of advanced physics with scrupulous clarity and simplicity <em>Strange Beauty </em>is a tour de force of both science writing and biography. This updated edition with a new foreword by Douglas Hofstadter includes reflections on the final years of Gell-Mann's life and his influence on the Santa Fe Institute.</p>