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Hugh David Politzer

1949 - Today

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Hugh David Politzer (; born August 31, 1949) is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugh David Politzer is the 196th most popular physicist (up from 272nd in 2019), the 732nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,134th in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Physicist.

Hugh David Politzer is most famous for his work in the field of particle physics. Politzer is a professor at the California Institute of Technology and is best known for his work on the discovery of the gluon.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hugh David Politzer ranks 196 out of 851. Before him are Ilya Frank, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Auguste Piccard, Val Logsdon Fitch, George Francis FitzGerald, and Igor Tamm. After him are Horst Ludwig Störmer, Bertram Brockhouse, Max Delbrück, David Brewster, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, and Kip Thorne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Hugh David Politzer ranks 44. Before him are Arif Alvi, George Foreman, Bobby Farrell, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Carlos the Jackal, and Michael Houghton. After him are Horst Ludwig Störmer, Patrick Süskind, Amin Maalouf, Steve Perry, Linda Lovelace, and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hugh David Politzer ranks 732 out of 20,380. Before him are James Caan (1940), Donna Summer (1948), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), Sidney Sheldon (1917), Eddie Murphy (1961), and Reese Witherspoon (1976). After him are Napoleon Hill (1883), Maya Angelou (1928), Doris Day (1922), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Washington Irving (1783), and Lou Reed (1942).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Hugh David Politzer ranks 35. Before him are Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), Burton Richter (1931), Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), Douglas Osheroff (1945), George Smoot (1945), and Val Logsdon Fitch (1923). After him are Kip Thorne (1940), Hugh Everett III (1930), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), Edward Mills Purcell (1912), James Cronin (1931), and David Lee (1931).

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