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The 19 pages that link to Murray Gell-Mann, each with the reason it gives.
GluonRelated: The quark model made a force binding colored quarks necessary.
Quark modelRelated: Gell-Mann named quarks and used them to explain hadron multiplets.
Bjorken scalingRelated: The quark model helped identify the partons probed in the experiments.
Strange particlesRelated: His classification made strangeness central to organizing hadrons.
Strange quarkRelated: His work helped establish the strange quark as a constituent of hadrons.
Up quarkRelated: His model proposed the up quark as a constituent of protons and neutrons.
Kenneth G. WilsonRelated: Wilson worked with Gell-Mann on scale dependence in quantum field theory.
Hugh David PolitzerRelated: The quark framework he helped establish set the stage for QCD.