Max-von-Laue-Vortrag - "My journey in Nuclear Physics—Quantum Chromodynamics and the threat of nuclear annihilation"

Prof. Dr. David J. Gross is a Nobel Laureate in Physics, awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.” This breakthrough resolved one of the final major challenges of the Standard Model of particle physics by explaining how quarks interact inside the atomic nucleus.

Professor Gross joined the University of California, Santa Barbara in January 1997 and served as Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) until 2012. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and spent 31 years on the faculty at Princeton University, where he held the positions of Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Thomas Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics. He is the current holder of the Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Professor Gross is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His many honors include the J. J. Sakurai Prize (APS), a MacArthur Fellowship, and France’s highest scientific distinction, the Grande Médaille d’Or.