Write about a Nobel Prize winner?

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<p>I have been given the task to write an article about [Murray</a> Gell-Mann](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann]Murray”>Murray Gell-Mann - Wikipedia)'s lecture at my school in two days for my school’s paper and was wondering what I should focus my article on to capture the average college student’s attention about a Nobel Prize winner in Physics?</p>

<p>I don’t go to a “science lover” school like MIT where the word “physics” would arouse students, so I want to make it such that the students will actually read it instead of just looking at the picture on the paper.</p>

<p>Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated!</p>

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<p>Tell how his discoveries have made a difference in their lives. I never took a physics course and aren’t in general interested in that subject, so would need to know this kind of “so what” in order to read an article about him.</p>

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<p>When there’s a disconnect between the subject and the audience, try to reconcile it with easy, everyday examples.</p>

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