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David Gross
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American particle physicist and string theorist
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David J. Gross was born in 1941. He holds an Erdős number of 4. He has received one Nobel Prize.
His work is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection. It is also included in the Nobel Physics collection. Additionally, his contributions are acknowledged in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He is further recognized in the Macarthur Fellows collection.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics2004
“for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jonathan
- Family name
- Gross
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C.
- Father
- Bertram Myron Gross
- Employer
- Leiden University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Geoffrey Chew
- Doctoral student
- Edward Witten
- Field of work
- string theory
- Official website
- www.kitp.ucsb.edu/gross
- Image
- David Gross LANL.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1941-02-19
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- Erdős number
- 4
- name in native language
- David Jonathan Gross
- student
- Rajesh Gopakumar
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
David Jonathan Gross (/ɡroʊs/; born February 19, 1941) 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".
Gross is the Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and was formerly the KITP director and holder of their Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics. He is also a faculty member in the UCSB Physics Department and is affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University in California. He is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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