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Simple diagrams of protons, neutrons, and pions display yellow quark and green antiquark spheres connected by purple ribbon-like gluons, illustrating the internal structure of these atomic particles.
hadrons from quark and antiquark combinations
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Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann
American physicist
Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek
American physicist
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Henry Way Kendall
American physicist
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David Gross
American physicist
Hooft, Gerardus 't
Gerardus ’t Hooft
Dutch physicist
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H. David Politzer
American physicist
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Jerome Isaac Friedman
American physicist
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Richard E. Taylor
Canadian physicist

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