Hugh David Politzer
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Hugh David Politzer (/ˈpɑːlɪtsər/; born August 31, 1949) is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology.[1][2] He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics.[3]
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Born | (1949-08-31) August 31, 1949 (age 74) New York City, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Michigan Harvard University |
Known for | Asymptotic freedom Prediction of charmonium Quantum chromodynamics |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (2004) Sakurai Prize (1986) |
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Fields | Physics |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
Thesis | Asymptotic freedom: an approach to strong interactions (1974) |
Doctoral advisor | Sidney Coleman |
Doctoral students | Stephen Wolfram |
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