The “Eightfold Way’’

• Developed by Murray Gell-Mann and Yuval Ne’eman in 1961

• Plot hypercharge Y (baryon number + strangeness) versus isospin

• Observe patterns in multiplets

• Omega predicted and observed 1964

Periodic table for “elementary particles”!

Isospin

Charge

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