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David Gross

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Also known as David Jonathan Gross, D.J. Gross

American particle physicist and string theorist

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David Gross is a United States-based figure recognized in the Nobel Physics collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He was born on February 19, 1941. His professional record includes five works listed in Crossref and thirty-seven works in Open Library. Notable titles among his writings include *Price of Freedom*, *Proof of causation and damages in toxic chemical, hazardous waste, and drug cases, 1987*, *Riding a Buffalo with Theodore Roosevelt and Sitting Bull*, *Henry VII*, *Prince Arthur, Columbus and Little David*, *Sourdough Bullet for You*, and *Mr. Roosevelt?*

In the realm of music, David Gross is identified as a person from the US with an artist profile on Last.fm. This profile features tags for piano and Classical music, with a total playcount of 1,095 and 264 listeners. Additionally, he holds an Erdős number of 4.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2004

    “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Jonathan
Family name
Gross
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Washington, D.C.
Father
Bertram Myron Gross
Employer
Leiden University
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
atheism
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
Geoffrey Chew
Doctoral student
Edward Witten
Field of work
string theory
Official website
www.kitp.ucsb.edu/gross
Image
David Gross LANL.jpg
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David Gross
date of birth
1941-02-19
member of
American Philosophical Society
Erdős number
4
name in native language
David Jonathan Gross
student
Rajesh Gopakumar
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

David Jonathan Gross (/ɡroʊs/; born February 19, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with Frank Wilczek and Hugh David Politzer "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".

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), and was formerly the KITP director and holder of their Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics. He is also a faculty member in the UCSB Physics Department and is affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University in California. He is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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