David Jonathan Gross is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist.
13 Facts About David Gross
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David Gross is a faculty member in the UCSB Physics Department and is currently affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University in California.
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David Gross is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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David Gross was born to a Jewish family in Washington, DC, in February 1941.
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David Gross's parents were Nora and Bertram Myron Gross.
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David Gross received his bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 1962.
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David Gross was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and a Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton University until 1997, when he began serving as Princeton's Thomas Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics Emeritus.
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David Gross has received many honors, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1987 and the Dirac Medal in 1988.
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David Gross was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Politzer and Wilczek, for this discovery.
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In 2003, David Gross was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto.
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In 2015, David Gross signed the Mainau Declaration 2015 on Climate Change on the final day of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
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David Gross has a stepdaughter by his second wife, Jacquelyn Savani.
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David Gross has three brothers, including Samuel R Gross, professor of law, and Theodore Gross, a playwright.