Jan 13, 2026
who invented the quark
Murray Gell‑Mann and George Zweig independently proposed the constituent‑particle model now called quarks in 1964, with Gell‑Mann coining the name "quark" and Zweig proposing a similar scheme he calle...
Quark Model Proposal 1964
The proposal of the quark model by Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig in 1964, with experimental evidence from SLAC in the late 1960s.