Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

"[A] multidimensional portrait of a brilliant but tormented man who dominated elementary particle physics for 20 years....[Gell-Mann] appears as a flawed, almost Shakespearean hero in an era when prominent physicists like Einstein, Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking are typically portrayed as comic-book superheroes....Gell-Mann could not have written such a perceptive book about himself as Johnson has."George Johnson is the author of 'Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics', published 2000 under ISBN 9780679756880 and ISBN 0679756884.