This physicist referred to solid state physics as “squalid state physics.” The field of plectics was introduced by this physicist to refer to research done at the Santa Fe Institute, where he co-founded the Evolution of Human Languages project. Along with a physicist with an alphabetically earlier last name, this physicist popularized Sudarshan and Marshak’s V–A theory. This physicist discusses the interplay between simplicity and complexity in a book whose title pairs a physics concept with a jaguar. A discovery made by this physicist and Yuval Ne’eman (“nay-mahn”) is understood in terms of representations of the SU(3) (“S-U-3”) symmetry group. With Japanese colleagues, this physicist proposed “strangeness,” which he would later use in the Buddhism-butchering Eightfold Way. For 10 points, name this physicist who was inspired by Finnegans Wake to choose the name “quark.” ■END■
ANSWER: Murray Gell-Mann (He popularized V-A theory with Richard Feynman. His book is The Quark and the Jaguar.)
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