Physics: Hugh Politzer

Physics: Hugh Politzer
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Hugh Politzer (1949) Hugh David Politzer (; born August 31, 1949) is an American theoretical physicist.

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Hugh Politzer (1949) Hugh David Politzer (; born August 31, 1949) is an American theoretical physicist.

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

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About Hugh Politzer Hugh David Politzer (; born August 31, 1949) is an Am erican 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". He is the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology.