H. David Politzer, California Institute of Technology
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Professor
Pasadena, California
politzer@theory.caltech.edu
Office:
(626) 395-4252
Bio/Research
With David Gross and Frank Wilczek, David Politzer won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction, work he began as a graduate student. Politzer described how quarks are bound together to form the protons and neutrons of atomic ...
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Bio/Research
With David Gross and Frank Wilczek, David Politzer won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction, work he began as a graduate student. Politzer described how quarks are bound together to form the protons and neutrons of atomic nuclei, theorizing that quarks become bound more tightly the farther they get from each other.
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