David Gross

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David Gross
Gross in 2007
Born
David Jonathan Gross

(1941-02-19) February 19, 1941 (age 83)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
EducationHebrew University of Jerusalem (BSc, MSc)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known forAsymptotic freedom
Heterotic string
Gross–Neveu model
Spouse(s)Shulamith Toaff Gross (divorced)
Jacquelyn Savani
Children2
AwardsDirac Medal (1988)
Harvey Prize (2000)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Harvard University
Princeton University
ThesisInvestigation of the many-body, multichannel partial-wave scattering amplitude (1966)
Doctoral advisorGeoffrey Chew
Doctoral studentsNatan Andrei
Frank Wilczek
Edward Witten
William E. Caswell
Eric D'Hoker
Rajesh Gopakumar
Nikita Nekrasov
Stephen Bernard Libby
Websitewww.kitp.ucsb.edu/gross
Signature

David Jonathan Gross (/ɡroʊs/; born February 19, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics[1] for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. 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),[2] and was formerly the KITP director and holder of their Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics.[3] He is also a faculty member in the UCSB Physics Department[4] and is affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Studies[5] at Chapman University in California. He is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[6]

  1. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  2. ^ "UC Santa Barbara, David Gross". Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  3. ^ "In Depth: David Gross | The Kavli Foundation". www.kavlifoundation.org. Archived from the original on 13 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  4. ^ "People | Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara". physics.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Members". www.chapman.edu. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Foreign Members---Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences". english.casad.cas.cn. Retrieved 9 February 2016.