A different sort of religion

[B C Johnson]

Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.
Gell-Mann, and, independently, George Zweig, then went on, in 1964, to postulate the quark model. This introduced quarks, the particles of which the hadrons were composed, a name coined by Gell-Mann through a reference to the book Finnegans Wake, written by James Joyce ("Three quarks for Muster Mark!").[citation needed] Zweig had referred to the particles as "aces" but Gell-Mann's name caught on.
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