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		frutiger on July 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life And while Gell-Mann did not name them after himself, “three quarks for Muster Mark” is a delightful origin of that particle’s name.

wrycoder on July 2, 2022 [–]

We started with up and down quarks, and then discovered the charmed and strange ones. It would have been appropriate, given the trend in quark naming, to call the next two gell and mann, but Feynman would have had a fit.

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