Awards & Winners

David Gross

Date of Birth 19-February-1941
Place of Birth Washington, D.C.
(United States of America, United States, with Territories, Contiguous United States, Area code 202)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Physicist, Scientist, Professor
David Jonathan Gross is an American particle 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 with the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University in California.

Awards by David Gross

Check all the awards nominated and won by David Gross.

2004


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction)