2017 · Q86
Who among the following has coined the term "Quark", the fundamental particles that make up protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus?
general-sciencephysics-mechanics
- ARichard Feynman
- BMurray Gell-Mann
- CAlbert Einstein
- DNiels Bohr
Explanation
Murray Gell-Mann coined the term quark in 1964 (from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake) for the fundamental constituents of protons and neutrons. Feynman, Einstein and Bohr did not. Hence (B).