About Hugh David Politzer
Hugh David Politzer is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction". In his first published article, which appeared in 1973, Politzer described the phenomenon of asymptotic freedom: the closer quarks are to each other, the weaker the strong interaction will be between them. This result—independently discovered at around the same time by Gross and Wilczek at Princeton University—was extremely important in the development of quantum chromodynamics. In 2003 he was awarded the High Energy Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society, jointly with David J. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 was awarded jointly to David J.
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