David J. Gross

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GrossAKA David Jonathan GrossBorn: <a href="/lists/567/000106249/" class=proflink>19-Feb</a>-<a href="/lists/940/000105625/" class=proflink>1941</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/761/000069554/" class=proflink>Washington, DC</a> Gender: Male Religion: <a href="/lists/875/000071662/" class=proflink>Jewish</a> Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: <a href="/lists/629/000096341/" class=proflink>Physicist</a>Nationality: United States Executive summary: Deep structure of matterDavid J. Gross is a physicist who heads the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He was born and raised in America, but in his early adolescence his family moved to Israel. He was immersed in Hebrew, a language he had not known, and he became fascinated by physics. He says he was 13 when he decided to become a theoretical physicist. For research into the "strong force" -- the interaction binding quarks, antiquarks, and gluons to make hadrons -- Gross was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics. The honor was shared with his first graduate student and collaborator, <a href="/people/720/000140300/">Frank Wilczek</a>, and with <a href="/people/716/000140296/">H. David Politzer</a>, who reached the same conclusions through research conducted independently. Their work describes 'asymptotic freedom', the property of some gauge theories in which the interaction between particles becomes weaker at ever-decreasing distances, and stronger as the distance decreases, and has led to a new physical theory of quantum chromodynamics. Gross also conducted important research into superstring theory. His father was an upper-level federal bureaucrat, and wrote books about his expertise, including The Managing of Organizations and Organizations and Their Managing. Father: Bertram Myron Gross (federal bureaucrat) Mother: Nora Faine Gross Wife: Shulamith Toaff Gross (statistician, div., two children) Daughter: Ariela Gross (legal historian) Daughter: Elisheva Gross (psychologist) Wife: Jacquelyn Savani (public relations consultant) Daughter: Miranda Savani (stepdaughter)     University: <a href="/edu/947/000104635/">BS Mathematics, Hebrew University (1962)</a>     University: <a href="/edu/470/000068266/">MS Physics, UC Berkeley (1966)</a>     University: <a href="/edu/473/000068269/">PhD Physics, Harvard University (1969)</a>     Teacher: <a href="/edu/549/000068345/">Physics, Princeton University (1969-71)</a>     Professor: <a href="/edu/549/000068345/">Physics, Princeton University (1971-96)</a>     Administrator: <a href="/edu/774/000068570/">Director of Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara (1996-)</a>     <a href="/honors/201/000067997/">Nobel Prize for Physics</a> 2004 (with <a href="/people/716/000140296/">H. David Politzer</a> and <a href="/people/720/000140300/">Frank Wilczek</a>)     <a href="/org/811/000055646/">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>     <a href="/org/766/000051613/">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a>     <a href="/org/095/000117741/">Harvard Society of Fellows</a>     <a href="/org/632/000052476/">Institute for Advanced Study</a>     <a href="/org/692/000054530/">National Academy of Sciences</a>     <a href="/org/191/000058017/">MacArthur Foundation</a> Fellowship (1987)     <a href="/org/630/000117279/">Alfred P. Sloan Foundation</a> Fellowship (1970-74)     <a href="/org/496/000071283/">American Physical Society</a>     <a href="/org/430/000172911/">Science Debate 2008</a>     <a href="/lists/492/000050342/">Czechoslovak Ancestry</a> Paternal     <a href="/lists/352/000044220/">Hungarian Ancestry</a> Paternal     <a href="/lists/481/000045346/">Jewish Ancestry</a>     <a href="/lists/676/000044544/">Ukrainian Ancestry</a> Maternal Author of books: Physics and Mathematics at the Frontier (<tt>1988</tt>) Two-Dimensional QCD and Strings (<tt>1993</tt>, with Washington Taylor) Screening vs. Confinement in 1+1 Dimensions (<tt>1995</tt>) <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=140295"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=140295">David J. 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