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David Jonathan Gross 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".
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Born 19 February 1941 · Q40262
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At the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Gross and two other Laureates issued this urgent warning about the growing risk of nuclear war, that the half life of our civilization is 34 years, and presented concrete policy
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2016).
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Gross signed the Mainau Declaration 2015 on Climate Change on the final day of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2004).
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Awarded Grand Prize of the French Academy of Science (2004).
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Awarded High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (2003).
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Gross was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto
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Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Montpellier-II (2002).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Montpellier-II (2000).
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Won Oskar Klein Medal (2000).
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Awarded Harvey Prize (2000).
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Won ICTP Dirac Medal (1988).
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Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1987).
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Awarded Sakurai Prize (1986).
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Gross, working with his first graduate student, Frank Wilczek, at Princeton University, discovered asymptotic freedom—the primary feature of non-Abelian gauge theories—which led Gross and Wilczek to the formulation of qu
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Born 1941-02-19.
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