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What was the name of the prestigious professorship Gell-Mann held at Caltech?

  • Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics

  • Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics

  • Leonard Susskind Professor of Theoretical Physics

  • Steven Hawking Professor of Theoretical Physics

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Robert Andrews Millikan was a physicist who is most famous for his work on the electron, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923. In 1951, Murray Gell-Mann became the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech. This is a prestigious position, and Gell-Mann held it until his retirement in 1993.
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