Science in Quotes: The Naming of Quark

“In 1963, when I assigned the name ‘quark’ to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been ‘kwork’.”
Science in Quotes: The Naming of Quark
Murray Gell-Mann. World Economic Forum
Epoch Times Staff
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Murray Gell-Mann. (World Economic Forum)