1941 - Today
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 564,259 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). David Gross is the 290th most popular physicist (up from 331st in 2019), the 1,521st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,984th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Physicist.
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Among physicists, David Gross ranks 290 out of 717. Before him are George Smoot, Ernest Walton, Ludwig Prandtl, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Samuel C. C. Ting, and Carlo Rubbia. After him are Ernst Chladni, Makoto Kobayashi, Fritjof Capra, Walter Kohn, William Daniel Phillips, and Yuri Oganessian.
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 284
1903 - 1995
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 285
1875 - 1953
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 286
1770 - 1831
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 287
1936 - Present
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 288
1934 - Present
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 289
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 290
1756 - 1827
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 291
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 292
1939 - Present
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 293
1923 - 2016
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 294
1948 - Present
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 295
1933 - Present
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 296
Among people born in 1941, David Gross ranks 95. Before him are William Nordhaus, Carlo Maria Viganò, Josip Skoblar, Princess Muna al-Hussein, Alfred G. Gilman, and Jacqueline Boyer. After him are John E. Walker, Martha Stewart, Lella Lombardi, Barbet Schroeder, Stephen Frears, and Ann-Margret.
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 89
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.84
Rank: 90
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 91
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 92
1941 - 2015
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 93
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 94
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 95
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 96
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 97
1941 - 1992
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 98
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 99
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 100
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 101
Among people born in United States, David Gross ranks 1,521 out of 18,182. Before him are Jeffery Deaver (1950), Jack Dempsey (1895), Richard Fleischer (1916), Stephen Lang (1952), James Avery (1945), and Conrad Hilton (1887). After him are James Irwin (1930), William Lipscomb (1919), John Zorn (1953), Marvin Minsky (1927), William Westmoreland (1914), and Steve Ditko (1927).
1950 - Present
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 1,515
1895 - 1983
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 1,516
1916 - 2006
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 1,517
1952 - Present
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 1,518
1945 - 2013
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 1,519
1887 - 1979
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 1,520
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 1,521
1930 - 1991
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 1,522
1919 - 2011
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 1,523
1953 - Present
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 1,524
1927 - 2016
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 1,525
1914 - 2005
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 1,526
1927 - 2018
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 1,527
Among physicists born in United States, David Gross ranks 59. Before him are Philip Warren Anderson (1923), Hugh David Politzer (1949), Henry Way Kendall (1926), Douglas Osheroff (1945), George Smoot (1945), and Samuel C. C. Ting (1936). After him are William Daniel Phillips (1948), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), John Robert Schrieffer (1931), Leon M. Lederman (1922), Steven Chu (1948), and Nathan Rosen (1909).
1923 - 2020
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 53
1949 - Present
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 54
1926 - 1999
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 55
1945 - Present
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 56
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 57
1936 - Present
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 58
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 59
1948 - Present
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 60
1936 - 2013
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 61
1931 - 2019
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 62
1922 - 2018
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 63
1948 - Present
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 64
1909 - 1995
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 65