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David GrossAmerican physicist
Date of Birth: 19.02.1941
Country:  USA |
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Biography of David Gross
David Gross is an American physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for his discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of strong interactions, which he shared with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer.
Education
Gross studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, where he obtained his master's degree in 1962. In 1966, he defended his doctoral dissertation in physics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Academic Career
From 1966 to 1997, Gross worked as a junior faculty member at Harvard University and was a professor at Princeton University. In 1987, he received a grant from the MacArthur Foundation, and in 1988, he was awarded the Dirac Medal. Currently, Gross holds the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Contributions to Physics
In 1973, together with his first graduate student, Frank Wilczek, Gross discovered asymptotic freedom, which states that the strong interaction between quarks weakens as the distance between them decreases. When quarks are very close together, they behave like free particles. This theory, independently discovered by David Politzer, was a significant breakthrough in the development of quantum chromodynamics.
Furthermore, Gross, along with Jeffrey Harvey, Emil Martinec, and Ryan Rohm, developed the heterotic string theory, contributing to the field of theoretical physics.
Awards and Recognitions
In 2000, Gross received the Harvey Prize in Physics from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. In 2004, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking contributions to the field.
