科学美国人60秒 SSS 纪念默里·盖尔曼

（单词翻译）

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.

这里是科学美国人——60秒科学系列，我是史蒂夫·米尔斯基。

"Murray Gell-Mann was one of the great physicists¹ of the 20th century."

“默里·盖尔曼是20世纪最伟大的物理学家之一。”

Historian of physics Graham Farmelo. Nobel Laureate Gell-Mann died May 24th. He was 89. I spoke² with Farmelo May 30th at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the morning after a symposium³ related to Farmelo's latest book, The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets. Gell-Mann appears in the book.

这是物理学历史学家格雷厄姆·法梅洛所说。诺贝尔奖得主盖尔曼于5月24日去世。享年89岁。5月30日，法梅洛在普林斯顿高等研究院举行了新书《宇宙以数字说话：现代数学如何揭示自然界最深的秘密》的座谈会，我在座谈会结束后的上午对他进行了采访。这本书中提到了盖尔曼。

"More, I think, than anybody else in the 1950s and ‘60s, he helped to take us—we human beings—deep into the heart of atomic nuclei⁴, the core of atoms, and help us understand the bewildering variety of those subnuclear particles. It looked like a complete mess. But with Gell-Mann's physical intuition, his mathematics, his sure-footedness, he enabled us to organize our understanding of those particles. And it was that that led him and another colleague, George Zweig, to identify the quark, which is a particle that is a constituent⁵ of the strongly interacting particles, like the proton and neutron⁶. So he was a really big figure ... a tremendously powerful theoretician."

“我认为，他在20世纪50年代和60年代对我们的帮助胜过任何人，他带领我们人类深入原子核的心脏，帮助我们理解各种令人眼花缭乱的亚核粒子。这些粒子看起来一团糟。但凭借盖尔曼的物理直觉、数学知识和脚踏实地，他使我们能够组织对这些粒子的理解。正因如此，他和另一名同事乔治·茨威格确定了参与质子和中子等强相互作用的粒子——夸克。因此，他真的是伟大的人物，是极具影响力的理论家。”

"He liked to stay close to data as well, that's really important.... I think it's fair to say that he was pretty much unrivaled as somebody who could interpret these weird⁷ particle tracks and what have you, and somehow see the fundamental patterns of the universe in terms of those particle tracks, so to speak...."

“他也喜欢接触数据，这真的相当重要，我认为公平地说，就理解这些奇怪粒子的轨道、从粒子轨道理解宇宙的基本模式来说，他可以说是无可匹敌的人物。”

"Gell-Mann was admired by everyone—feared by some people because of his lacerating wit, his poisonous put-downs and what have you, but he—there was absolutely no doubting his intellectual quality.... Gell-Mann will be remembered as one of the great theoreticians of the 20th century."

“所有人都钦佩盖尔曼，也有些人害怕他，因为他伤人的风趣、不友善的奚落等，但他的智力水平绝对是毋庸置疑的。盖尔曼将作为20世纪最伟大的理论家之一被人们铭记。”

For Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.

谢谢大家收听科学美国人——60秒科学。我是史蒂夫·米尔斯基。