The Quark and the Jaguar
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1995-09-14
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin
- Retrieved
- May 29, 2012
- ISBN
- l6aCe4zqZ_
1 meme from this reference
On Naming the Quark
In 1963, when I assigned the name 'quark' to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been 'kwork.' Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word 'quark' in the phrase 'Three quarks for Muster Mark.'…