Hugh David Politzer
Hugh David Politzer | |
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| Born | August 31, 1949 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) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Asymptotic freedom: an approach to strong interactions (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sidney Coleman |
| Doctoral students | Stephen Wolfram |
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. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics.