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"Quark" is an English word for a type of cream cheese.
The quark model was independently proposed by physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig in 1964.
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According to wiki, quark was once called as the 'parton', a term coined by Richard Feynman. At present, the word 'parton' is used as a collective term for the constituents of hadrons.
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