NOBEL LAUREATE MURRAY GELL-MANN TO SPEAK AT U.VA. OCT. 26

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 20 -- Murray Gell-Mann, professor
emeritus of physics at the California Institute of Technology, will
give a talk titled ÒFrom Simplicity to ComplexityÓ Wednesday, Oct.
26, at 3 p.m. in Gilmer Hall Auditorium Room 190 at the University
of Virginia.  The talk is sponsored by the Commonwealth Center for
Literary and Cultural Change, where Gell-Mann, who won the Nobel
Prize in physics in 1965, is a visiting scholar.  President Clinton
has recently named Gell-Mann to his panel of science and technology
advisors.
	Gell-Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for work leading up to
his discovery of the quark--the basic building block of atomic
nuclei.  In 1984, he helped establish the Santa Fe Institute, where
he and other scientists and scholars engage in theoretical work on
topics such as quantum mechanics, the human immune system, the
evolution of human languages and the global economy.
	A director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, Gell-Mann serves as chairman of its committee on world
environment and resources.  He received the 1993 Lindbergh Award for
his ongoing efforts to promote a balance between technological
advancement and environmental preservation.
	ÒThe Quark and the Jaguar,Ó published in 1994 by W.H.
Freeman and Company, is Gell-MannÕs own story of finding the
connections between the basic laws of physics and the complexity and
diversity of the natural world.
	For more information, call (804) 982-5586.
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October 19, 1994