Acclaimed science writer George Johnson, author of The Palaces of Memory and Fire In The Mind, writes this vivid portrayal of physicist Murray Gell-Man. Strange Beauty Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth Century Physics provides the reader with details of the tormented life of the brilliant scientist who revolutionized modern particle physics with his theories of the quark and the Eightfold Way. This book is considered a tour de force that combines science writing and biography. | Strange Beauty by George Johnson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters