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David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941 in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
) is an American
United States

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 particle physicist
Particle physics

Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary particle constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them....
 and string theorist
String theory

String theory is a developing branch of theoretical physics that combines quantum mechanics and general relativity into a quantum gravity. The String s of string theory are one-dimensional oscillating lines, but they are no longer considered fundamental to the theory, which can be formulated in terms of points or surfaces too....
. Along with Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek

Frank Anthony Wilczek is an United States theoretical physics and Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
 and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
 for his discovery of asymptotic freedom
Asymptotic freedom

In physics, asymptotic freedom is the property of some gauge theory in which the interaction between the particles, such as quarks, becomes arbitrarily weak at ever shorter distances, i.e....
.

In 1973, Gross, working with his first graduate student, Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek

Frank Anthony Wilczek is an United States theoretical physics and Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
, at Princeton University
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
, discovered asymptotic freedom, which holds that the closer quarks are to each other, the less the strong interaction
Strong interaction

In particle physics, the strong interaction, or strong force, or color force, holds quarks and gluons together to form protons, neutrons and other particles....
 (or color charge
Color charge

In particle physics, color charge is a property of quarks and gluons which are related to their strong interactions in the context of quantum chromodynamics ....
) between them; when quarks are in extreme proximity, the nuclear force between them is so weak that they behave almost as free particles.






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David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941 in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 particle physicist
Particle physics

Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary particle constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them....
 and string theorist
String theory

String theory is a developing branch of theoretical physics that combines quantum mechanics and general relativity into a quantum gravity. The String s of string theory are one-dimensional oscillating lines, but they are no longer considered fundamental to the theory, which can be formulated in terms of points or surfaces too....
. Along with Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek

Frank Anthony Wilczek is an United States theoretical physics and Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
 and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
 for his discovery of asymptotic freedom
Asymptotic freedom

In physics, asymptotic freedom is the property of some gauge theory in which the interaction between the particles, such as quarks, becomes arbitrarily weak at ever shorter distances, i.e....
.

In 1973, Gross, working with his first graduate student, Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek

Frank Anthony Wilczek is an United States theoretical physics and Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
, at Princeton University
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
, discovered asymptotic freedom, which holds that the closer quarks are to each other, the less the strong interaction
Strong interaction

In particle physics, the strong interaction, or strong force, or color force, holds quarks and gluons together to form protons, neutrons and other particles....
 (or color charge
Color charge

In particle physics, color charge is a property of quarks and gluons which are related to their strong interactions in the context of quantum chromodynamics ....
) between them; when quarks are in extreme proximity, the nuclear force between them is so weak that they behave almost as free particles. Asymptotic freedom, independently discovered by Politzer, was important for the development of quantum chromodynamics
Quantum chromodynamics

Quantum chromodynamics is a theory of the strong interaction , a fundamental force describing the interactions of the quarks and gluons making up hadrons ....
.

Gross, with Jeffrey A. Harvey
Jeffrey A. Harvey

Jeffrey A. Harvey is a Professor of Physics and string theory at University of Chicago. Among his many contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he is one of the co-discoverers of the heterotic string....
, Emil Martinec
Emil Martinec

Emil Martinec is an United States theoretical physicist born in 1958. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1979 and obtained his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984....
, and Ryan Rohm also formulated the theory of the heterotic string
Heterotic string

In physics, a heterotic string is a peculiar mixture of the bosonic string theory and the superstring . In string theory, the left-moving and the right-moving excitations almost do not talk to each other, and it is possible to construct a string theory whose left-moving excitations "think" that they live on a bosonic string propagating in '...
.

Academic life

He was born and raised in America. His father was Bertram Myron Gross
Bertram Myron Gross

Bertram Myron Gross was an American social scientist, federal bureaucrat and professor of political science at Hunter College . He is known from his book Friendly Fascism from 1980 and as primary author of the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act....
 (1912-1998). In his early adolescence his family moved to Israel. He was immersed in Hebrew, a language he had not known, and he became fascinated by physics. He says he was 13 when he decided to become a theoretical physicist.

Gross received his bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree

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 and master's degree
Master's degree

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 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
, in 1962. He received his Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy

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 in physics from the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is a public university research university located in Berkeley, California, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines....
 in 1966 under the supervision of Geoffrey Chew
Geoffrey Chew

Geoffrey Chew is an American theoretical physicist. Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley, since 1957, Emeritus since 1991. PhD in theoretical particle physics, 1944-1946, from University of Chicago....
 and was a Junior Fellow
Harvard Society of Fellows

The Harvard Society of Fellows is a collection of luminaries selected by Harvard University to be given special honors, upon whom distinctive academic and intellectual opportunities are bestowed....
 at Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 and a Professor at Princeton University
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
 until 1997. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a major private grant -making private foundation based in Chicago that has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978....
 Fellowship in 1987, the Dirac Medal in 1988, and currently is the director and holder of the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is an institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara.KITP is one of the most renowned institutes for theoretical physics in the world....
 of the University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public university research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system....
.

Honours and awards

  • Dirac Medal (1988)
  • Nobel Prize in Physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics

    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
     (2004)


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