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Murray GellMann Lecturing in Cambridge England 129200
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To listen to more of Murray Gell-Mann’s stories, go to the playlist: • Murray Gell-Mann (Scientist) • New York-born physicist Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019) was a theoretical physicist. His considerable contributions to physics include the theory of quantum chromodynamics. He was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. [Listener: Geoffrey West; date recorded: 1997] • TRANSCRIPT: I gave some lectures at the Cavendish on quarks. Dirac attended faithfully. As usual he sat in the back and fell asleep–well, no, I don't know if he was in the back, but as usual he fell asleep, immediately, at the beginning of each lecture and then woke up right at the end. And as usual he asked brilliant questions despite the fact that he had been asleep. Nobody ever understood quite how he did that, whether he was just pretending to be asleep, or whether somehow he... something got through to him despite his being asleep, or whether he was able to ask brilliant questions even without hearing the talk. I don't know what it was. Anyway, the questions indicated that he very, very much liked the quarks. Now, in 1966 that was not usual. Most people in our community thought they were sort of crank, that I had gone bananas and so on. So I… afterwards I asked him. I said, 'Paul Adrien, what is it you like about the quarks? You obviously… they obviously appeal to you a great deal'. He said, 'Oh, oh yes. They do have spin one-half, don't they?' What he meant was, not just that they had spin one-half, but that they obeyed his equation, with only minor corrections in certain some limit. And that proved to be more and more and more true, and these experiments that you mentioned were essential in uncovering that. Or they were essential in confirming rather, because some people had already conjectured it, that the... in the limit of short distances and high momentum transfer that the corrections to the Dirac equation behavior of the quarks would be quite small, sort of perturbative. The first person to suggest that was Bjorken, BJ. He had read my papers on current algebra and he suggested going beyond them, and essentially what he suggested was at least an approximate validity for current algebra equations near the light cone. I believe that's one way to say what he was doing.
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