Murray Gell-Mann, born September 15, 1929, won the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. His contributions span the entire history of particle physics, from the early days of the particle zoo to the modern day QCD. Along the way, even as he proposed new quantum numbers to bring order into the zoo, he had fun in naming them. And thus was born Strangeness, Flavor, Hadrons, Baryons, Leptons, the Eightfold Way, Color, Quarks, Gluons and, with Harald Fritzsch, the standard field theory of strong interactions, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). He also proposed with Richard Feynman the V-A theory of beta decay. Gell-Mann discovered the Current Algebra, proposed (with Levy) the sigma model of pions and the see-saw mechanism for the neutrino masses.

• Murray Gell-Mann - A Scientific Biography (H Fritzsch); Memories of Murray and the Quark Model (G Zweig); Some Problems in Cold Atom Research (C N Yang); Murray and (N Samios); From Ω- to Ωb (M Karliner); Early History of QCD and Quarks (G Karl); Understanding Confinement in QCD - Elements of a Big Picture (M Shifman); QCD Glue Mesons (P Minkowski); The QCD Coupling and Parton Distributions at High Precision (J Bluemlein); QCD and the Spin of the Proton (A Thomas); Determination of the Light Quark Masses in QCD (C Dominguez); The Elusive Higgs Boson (J Gunion); Prospects for New Physics at the LHC (J Ellis); Murray Gell-Mann and the Last Frontier of LHC Physics: The QGCW Project (A Zichichi); Classical Cellular Automata and Quantum Field Theory (G t' Hooft); Some Lessons from 60 years of Theorizing (M Gell-Mann); Gauge Structures in Multivalued Fields (H Kleinert); Neutrino Masses and Grand Unification of Flavor (R Mohapatra); Neutrino Mixing, Oscillations, Leptonic CP-Violation, the See-Saw Mechanism and Beyond (S Petcov); Some Recent Progress in AdS/CFT (J Schwarz); Aspects of String Phenomenology (I Antoniadis); String Corrections to QCD at LHC (D Luest); Maximal Supersymmetry and Exceptional Groups (L Brink); Gauge/Gravity Duality and Some Applications (S Wadia); Energy and Momentum on a de Sitter Space in Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory (M Bander); A Gauge Symmetry in Phase Space and Consequences for Physics and Space-time (I Bars); Composite Higgs Particle (K Yamawaki); Extremal Black Holes and Attractors (S Ferrara); The Dark Energy Puzzle (P-S Chen); Relaxing the Cosmological Constant on Large Distance Scales (A Zee); Cosmological SUSY Breaking and its Phenomenological Consequences (T Banks); Dark Matter Scattering and the Flyby Anomalies (S Adler); Primordial Black Holes as All Dark Matter (P Frampton); The Origin of Neutrino Mass and LHC (G Senjanovic); Variation of Fundamental Constants from Big Bang to Atomic Clocks: Theory and Observations Classical Cellular Automata and Quantum Field Theory (V Flambaum); and other papers.