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David Gross

1941 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Gross has received more than 594,836 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). David Gross is the 307th most popular physicist (down from 290th in 2019), the 1,474th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,521st in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, David Gross ranks 307 out of 851. Before him are Freeman Dyson, Andre Geim, Giorgio Parisi, Jack Steinberger, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and Hélène Langevin-Joliot. After him are Ratko Janev, Paul-Jacques Curie, Moshé Feldenkrais, James Jeans, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, and John Robert Schrieffer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, David Gross ranks 100. Before him are Alfred G. Gilman, Igor Smirnov, Toyo Ito, Jacqueline Boyer, Michael Stuart Brown, and Neil Diamond. After him are Angelo Scola, William Nordhaus, Grace Zabriskie, Liamine Zéroual, Senta Berger, and Lella Lombardi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Gross ranks 1,474 out of 20,380. Before him are Dennis Quaid (1954), Joseph Cotten (1905), James Patterson (1947), Rose Kennedy (1890), Willard Van Orman Quine (1908), and Paul Stanley (1952). After him are Barry Levinson (1942), Tom Ford (1961), Irving Stone (1903), Margaret Hamilton (1936), Bob Ross (1942), and Daniel Bell (1919).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, David Gross ranks 62. Before him are Julian Schwinger (1918), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Hugh David Politzer (1949), Steven Chu (1948), George Smoot (1945), and William Daniel Phillips (1948). After him are John Robert Schrieffer (1931), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), John C. Mather (1946), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), and Luis Walter Alvarez (1911).

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