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The condensed-matter physicists were so used to being looked down upon by the high-energy physics community — particle physicist Murray Gell-Mann described condensed matter as “squalid-state physics” — that they didn’t look down on other people.

His colleague Murray Gell-Mann, who died last May, liked to disparage Dr. Anderson’s field as “squalid state physics,” reflecting the notion that particle physics, Dr. Gell-Mann’s specialty, was a purer and superior endeavor.

He takes the term “Odyssean education” from the Nobel-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, referring to “an education that starts with the biggest questions and problems and teaches people to understand connections between them”.

In 2008, the Nobel-prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann declared it was only a matter of time before laws of history would be found, too.

Several science winners, from Enrico Fermi to Murray Gell-Mann, had their findings initially rejected.