Physics: David Gross

Physics: David Gross
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David Gross (1941) David Jonathan Gross (; born February 19, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist.

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David Gross (1941) David Jonathan Gross (; born February 19, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist.

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Why is David Gross remembered? Every major advance in physics was made by a person working to understand something that didn't quite make sense yet. David Gross was one of those people.

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About David Gross David Jonathan Gross (; 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.