David Gross
David Gross
David Jonathan Grossis an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. He is the former director and current holder of the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a faculty member in the UC Santa Barbara Physics Department and is currently affiliated...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth19 February 1941
CountryUnited States of America
We did not change anything on the role of the US government with regard to the technical aspects that we were very concerned about.
I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.
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