Gell-Mann is one of my favorite scientist, partly because he conforms to my idea of what a scientist is, ie. diverse interests (linguistics, systems science), fun communicator (just check YouTube), very slightly eccentric (Yann LeCun's story on how Gell-Mann pronounced his name), captain of big intellectual debates (the whole field of Complex Systems, or as he called it "Plectics" is fun, fun, fun!) and last but not least a great wine connoisseur (the Wine Spectator made a lengthy interview with him in June 2004). Nine decades well spent on our planet. R.I.P.