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=GLORY DAYS-(HIS CHILDHOOD) = Mr. Murray Gell-Mann was born on September 15, 1929, in New York City. His parents were Arthur and Pauline Reichstein Gell-Mann. His father was an immigrant from Czernowitz. This is an ancient city that was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This area is now known as Chernivtsi, Ukraine. His father was a very big influence on his interests in the fields of science and mathematics. When he was growing up he was a very enthusiastic child who had a very wide imagination. At the small age of seven he tried to teach himself how to do calculus. At the age of ten, he began to read “Finnegans Wake”, which was a novel by James Joyce. Murray attended the city’s Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School. He did well in every while attending this school, except for Physics. He graduated from the city’s Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in 1944, as class valedictorian and with a full scholarship to Yale University, at the age of 15.

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