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David Gross

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Gross is the 278th most popular physicist (up from 308th in 2019), the 1,302nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,474th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, David Gross ranks 278 out of 851. Before him are Gerard 't Hooft, John C. Mather, Masatoshi Koshiba, Claude-Louis Navier, Daniel Rutherford, and John Robert Schrieffer. After him are Mihajlo Pupin, William Daniel Phillips, Valentin Ceaușescu, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Peter Mansfield, and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, David Gross ranks 80. Before him are Gheorghe Zamfir, Chick Corea, Pierre Agostini, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Gérson, and Ray Tomlinson. After him are Princess Muna al-Hussein, Roberto Carlos, Navi Pillay, Paul Bremer, Stokely Carmichael, and Ed Bradley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Gross ranks 1,302 out of 20,380. Before him are Joseph Campbell (1904), John Reed (1887), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), Susan B. Anthony (1820), Henry Norris Russell (1877), and Sam Anderson (1945). After him are Don Siegel (1912), Susan Wojcicki (1968), Jonas Salk (1914), Steve Martin (1945), Robert A. Taft (1889), and Jeffrey Wright (1965).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, David Gross ranks 62. Before him are John Archibald Wheeler (1911), Julian Schwinger (1918), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), David J. Wineland (1944), John C. Mather (1946), and John Robert Schrieffer (1931). After him are William Daniel Phillips (1948), Ash Carter (1954), Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), John Clauser (1942), Harry Daghlian (1921), and Samuel C. C. Ting (1936).

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