The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004
Awarded on: 2004-10-05
"for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"
Affiliations:
- University of California, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics – Santa Barbara, CA, USA
David J. Gross
Born: 1941-02-19 in Washington, D.C., USA
Gender: male
Field: American particle physicist and string theorist
Biography
David Jonathan Gross is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with Frank Wilczek and Hugh David Politzer "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".