Hugh David Politzer
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Hugh David Politzer | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | August 31, 1949
Alma mater | 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.[1][2] He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics.[3]
Life and career
Politzer was born in
In his first published article, which appeared in 1973, Politzer described the phenomenon of asymptotic freedom: the closer
Politzer was a junior fellow at the
Politzer is one of the 20 American recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics to sign a letter addressed to President George W. Bush in May 2008, urging him to "reverse the damage done to basic science research in the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill" by requesting additional emergency funding for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.[8]
Politzer was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.[9]
Politzer plays the banjo and has done research on the physics of the instrument.[10][11]
Trivia
Politzer was the lead vocalist in the 1980s for Professor Politzer and the Rho Mesons, which put out their single, "The Simple Harmonic Oscillator".[12][13]
Politzer's
See also
References
- Politzer, H.D. (1974). "Asymptotic Freedom: An Approach to Strong Interactions". .
- ^ "Hugh D. (David) Politzer | Caltech Directory". directory.caltech.edu. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
- ^ "Britannica".
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004". Nobel Web. 2004. Retrieved October 24, 2010.
- ^ "Tereza - Terka Diamant". December 16, 2014.
- ^ H.D. Politzer (1973). "Reliable perturbative results for strong interactions?". .
- ^ "American Institute of Physics".
- ^ "David Politzer Wins Nobel Prize in Physics | Caltech". The California Institute of Technology. October 5, 2004. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ^ "A Letter from America's Physics Nobel Laureates" (PDF).
- ^ "Hugh David Politzer". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
- ^ Banjo Physics 411 AND Resonator Guitar Physics 412 https://www.its.caltech.edu/~politzer/
- ^ Burton, Howard (2021). Conversations About Physics, Volume 1. Toronto: Ideas Roadshow.
- ^ "The Simple Harmonic Oscillator". caltech.edu.
- ^ "David Politzer".
- ^ "Fat Man and Little Boy". imdb.
External links
- Hugh David Politzer on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture on December 8, 2004 The Dilemma of Attribution
- List of papers, from SPIRES
- Hugh David Politzer at IMDb
- Caltech press release on Politzer winning the Nobel Prize
- Hugh David Politzer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project