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:
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – Pasadena, CA, USA
H. David Politzer
Born: 1949-08-31 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American theoretical physicist
Biography
Hugh David Politzer is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".