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Who named the quark?

July 17, 2020March 5, 2012 by Pamela Landy

American physicist Murray Gell-Mann (b. 1929) named the quark in 1964.

He took the name from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

A quark, a subatomic particle with a fractional electric charge, is believed by physicists to be the fundamental unit of matter.

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