NOBEL LAUREATE TO VISIT MAST ACADEMY, JAN. 29 January 18, 2002 Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann will speak to MAST Academy students on the topic of creative thinking on Tuesday, Jan. 29, from 10 - 11:30 a.m. The school is located at 3979 Rickenbacker Causeway. Gell-Mann, a professor emeritus of physics and theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1969 for his work in quantum theory regarding the classification of particles. He proposed a new quantum property of particles that he termed "the strangeness number." Gell-Mann is also credited with initiating the term "quarks" to decribe the building blocks of matter (protons and neutrons). For more information, contact Dr. Margaret E. Haun at 305-365-6278. ### 02-AMC161/JJS Back to News Releases