David Gross
David Gross
David Jonathan Grossis 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. He is the former director and current holder of the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a faculty member in the UC Santa Barbara Physics Department and is currently affiliated...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth19 February 1941
CountryUnited States of America
Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.
When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force.
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.
My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.
Who's to say otherwise? That's an easy wash,
Obviously we want to find common ground, we want a successful summit, but we're not giving away our principles in order to get there,
No agreement is preferred to a bad agreement,
Some countries want that. We think that's unacceptable.
When the Medicare drug benefit was passed, AARP issued a challenge to the drug industry to keep increases at least to the rate of inflation until people had better coverage. By and large, that's not happening, ... Prices are going up more than twice the rate of inflation.
We did not change anything on the role of the US government with regard to the technical aspects that we were very concerned about.
I think there were times when we definitely missed Ben. It seemed like we'd make a stop on defense, but we couldn't convert on the other end. I think if we had Ben in there, we would have had more of a flow on offense and he could have helped us get some better shots.
Our strong preference is to have a document that everyone can be proud of.
I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.