Mary McFadden is a fashion designer, art historian, art collector, and writer. She has written for Vogue on her travels and art collecting and has contributed to numerous museum catalogs. Murray Gell-Mann is McFaddenrsquo;s companion and a Nobel Prizendash;winning physicist.
Murray Gell-Mann was born on September 15, 1929 in New York City. He received a B.Sc. from Yale University in 1948, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951. He marked his place in history with his discovery of quarks, a concept in particle physics that earned him a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969. He has written many scientific works including The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex, in which he presents his ideas to a general readership. He has received several awards including the Dannie Heineman Prize of the American Physical Society, the Ernest O. Lawrence Memorial Award of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Franklin Medal of the… Franklin Institute, the Research Corporation Award, and the John J. Carty medal of the National Academy of Sciences.