
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, June 9, 1994                   TAG: 9406210025
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: EXTRA1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Joel Achenbach
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

AH, THOSE QUIRKY QUARKS

Today we have a special treat: Lots of your favorite and most urgent questions about elementary particle physics -- you do have some right? -- answered by Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann, who predicted the existence of quarks back in 1963 and gave them their silly name. We caught up with him recently as he promoted his new book, "The Quark and the Jaguar." Q: Ok, so why'd he call them "quarks," and not, say, "geeberdongers"?

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