Nationality American Role Physicist Fields Physics, String Theory Spouse Jacquelyn Savani | Name David Gross | |
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Born David Jonathan Gross February 19, 1941 (age 83) Washington, D.C., U.S. ( 1941-02-19 ) Institutions University of California, Santa BarbaraHarvard UniversityPrinceton University Alma mater Hebrew UniversityUniversity of California, Berkeley Doctoral students Frank WilczekEdward WittenWilliam E. CaswellRajesh GopakumarNikita Nekrasov Books Lectures on Current Algebra and Its Applications Parents Bertram Myron Gross, Nora Faine Gross Similar People Hugh David Politzer, Frank Wilczek, Edward Witten, Roman Jackiw, Steven Weinberg Profiles | ||
Residence United States of America | ||
David gross the coming revolutions in theoretical physics
David Jonathan Gross (; 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 for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. David Gross is the Chancellor’s Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara, 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 UC Santa Barbara Physics Department and is currently 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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- David gross the coming revolutions in theoretical physics
- David gross frontiers of fundamental physics
- Biography
- Family
- Honors and awards
- Membership in Academies and Societies
- Honorary Doctorates and Professorships
- Named Lectures
- References
David gross frontiers of fundamental physics
Biography
Gross was born to a Jewish family in Washington, D.C., in February of 1941. His parents were Nora (Faine) and Bertram Myron Gross (1912–1997). Gross received his bachelor's degree and master's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 1962. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966, under the supervision of Geoffrey Chew.
He was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University, and a Professor at Princeton University until 1997, when he began serving as Princeton's Thomas Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics Emeritus. He has received many honors, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1987, the Dirac Medal in 1988 and the Harvey Prize in 2000.
He has been a central figure in particle physics and string theory. In 1973, Professor Gross, working with his first graduate student, Frank Wilczek, at Princeton University, discovered asymptotic freedom—the primary feature of non-Abelian gauge theories—led Gross and Wilczek to the formulation of quantum chromodynamics. , the theory of the strong nuclear force. Asymptotic freedom is a phenomenon where the nuclear force weakens at short distances, which explains why experiments at very high energy can be understood as if nuclear particles are made of non-interacting quarks. The flip side of asymptotic freedom is that the force between quarks grows stronger as one tries to separate them. Therefore, the closer quarks are to each other, the less the strong interaction (or color charge) is between them; when quarks are in extreme proximity, the nuclear force between them is so weak that they behave almost as free particles. This is the reason why the nucleus of an atom can never be broken into its quark constituents.
QCD completed the Standard Model, which details the three basic forces of particle physics--the electromagnetic force, the weak force, and the strong force. Gross was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Politzer and Wilczek, for this discovery. He has also made seminal contributions to the theory of Superstrings, a burgeoning enterprise that brings gravity into the quantum framework. With collaborators he originated the "Heterotic String Theory," the prime candidate for a unified theory of all the forces of nature. He continues to do research in this field at the KITP, a world center of physics.
Gross, with Jeffrey A. Harvey, Emil Martinec, and Ryan Rohm also formulated the theory of the heterotic string. The four were whimsically nicknamed the "Princeton String Quartet."
In 2003, Gross was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto.
Family
David's first wife was Shulamith (Toaff). They have two children:
His second wife is Jacquelyn Savani. He has a stepdaughter, Miranda Savani, in Santa Barbara, California. She was born in North Huntingdon, and is an assistant to the chancellor and executive chancellor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and media consultant for Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Honors and awards
Membership in Academies and Societies
Fellow, American Physical Society, elected 1974
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 1985
Member, National Academy of Sciences, elected 1986
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected 1987
Fellow, European Academy of Sciences, elected 2004
Honorary Fellow of The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 2006
Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India, elected 2007
Member, American Philosophical Society, elected 2007
Foreign Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, elected 2007
Fellow, TWAS (the academy of sciences for the developing world), elected 2007
Member, Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, elected 2009
Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences, elected 2011
Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, elected 2016
Honorary Doctorates and Professorships
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, University of Montpellier, 2000
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2001
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Sao Paulo University, Brazil, 2006
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Ohio State University, 2007
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, University of the Philippines, Manila, 2008
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, De La Salle University, Manila, 2008
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, University of Cambridge, England, 2008
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, University of Cambodia, 2010
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2010
Honorary Doctoral Degree, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2016
Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina, 2016
Einstein Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2005
Honorary Professor, Zhejiang University, China, 2005
Honorary Professor, Xiamen University, China, 2006
Honorary Professor, Xi'an University, China, 2006
Honorary Professor, ESPOL University, Ecuador, 2006
Honorary Professor, Lanzhou University, China, 2007
Honorary Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2010
Honorary Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, 2012
Honorary Professor, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China, 2012
Honorary Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCAS, Beijing, China, 2006-
Solvay Centenary Chair, Solvay Institute, Brussels, 2011
Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Singapore, 2013
Lorentz Professor, Leiden University, Netherlands, 2014
Named Lectures
Andrejewski Lectures, Berlin, 1993
Maryland Distinguished Lecturer, 1995
Celsius Lecture, Uppsala, Sweden, 1995
1994-5 Frontiers in Physics lectures, Texas A &M
Maria Mayer Memorial Lecture, San Diego 1995
Weizmann Lecturer, Weizmann Institute, 1996
Leigh Page Lectures, Yale, 1998
Marker Lectures, Penn State, 1998
Dirac Memorial Lecture, Cambridge University, 1999
Konopinski Lecture, Indiana State University, 1999
Dobson Lecture, University of California Berkeley, 2000
Oscar Klein Lecture, University of Stockholm, 2000
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture, University of Copenhagen, 2000
Welsh Lecturer at the University of Toronto, 2001
Henry Primakoff Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
Salmon Lecture, Trinity College, Dublin, 2003
David and Edith Harris Distinguished Lecture, MIT, 2003
Honorary Otis Lecture, City University of New York, 2004
Ta-You Wu Lecture, University of Michigan, 2004
Montroll Lecture, University of Rochester, 2005
Willibald Jentschke Lecture, Desy, Hamburg, 2005
Niels Bohr Lecture, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2005
Norman Kroll Memorial Lecture, University of California, San Diego, 2005
Daniel Ross Hamilton Memorial Lecture, Princeton University, 2005
Einstein Colloquium, Weizmann Institute, Israel, 2005
Einstein Lecture, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2005
Nobel Laureate Lecture Series, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, 2005
Einstein Lecture, University of Kentucky, 2005
Madua Lecture, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 2006
Homi Bhabha Lecture, Tata Institute, Mumbai, India, 2006
Rajiv Gandhi Science & Technology Lecture, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for
Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India, 2006
Newton Lecture, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre, Bangalore, India, 2006
Raman Memorial Lecture, Calcutta, India, 2006
Raychaudhuri Memorial Lecture, Calcutta, India, 2006
Varnum Lectures, Princeton University, 2006
Heilborn Distinguished Lectures, Northwestern University, 2006
Bethe Lectures, Cornell University, 2006
Buhl Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
Rothschild Lecture, Cambridge University, 2007
Brickwedde Lecture, Johns Hopkins University, 2007
Van Vleck Lecture, Minnesota, 2008
Solvay Distinguished Lecture, University of Brussels, 2008
Tsinghua Global Vision Lecture, Tsinghua University, China, 2008
Adelphus W. Smith Lecture, The University of Ohio, 2009
Sackler Lecture, Tel Aviv University, 2009
Putcha Venkateswarlu Memorial Lecture, Alabama Agricultural &
Mechanical University, 2009
Kaczmarczik Memorial Lecture, Drexel University, 2010
Anna McPherson Physics Lecture, McGill University, 2010
Katzenstein Distinguished Lecture, University of Connecticut, 2010
Dudley Wright Foundation Lecture, University of Geneva, 2010
Siemens Foundation Lecture, Munich, 2010
Inaugural Lecture, University of the Rio Grande, Natal, Brazil, 2011
Foundation Day Lecture, NISER, Bhubaneswar, India, 2011
Cherwell-Simon Lecture, Oxford University, 2011
Lee Lecture, Harvard University, 2012
Einstein Lecture, Berlin, 2012
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture, Niels Bohr Institute, 2012
Prange Lecture, University of Maryland, 2013
Royal Danish Academy Nobel Laureate Talk, Copenhagen, 2013
Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics Lecture, UBC, March 2014
Ehrenfest Colloquium Lecture, Leiden University, May 2014
Klosk Lecture, New York University, Sept. 2014
Della Pietra Lecture, Stony Brook University, 2015
Distinguished Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2015
Plenary Address, Indian Science Congress, Mysore, Jan. 2016
Arthur Williams Lecture, Brown University, 2016
Inaugural Lecture “Frontiers of Physics, University of Washington, 2016
Colloquium Paco Yndurain, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2016
Inaugural Lecture OAW-ISTA “Insights”, Vienna, 2016
STAG Lecture, University of Southampton, England, 2016