USA: AMERICAN SCIENTIST DAVID GROSS REACTS TO NEWS TO HIS NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE AWARD

Record ID: 190153

  • Title: USA: AMERICAN SCIENTIST DAVID GROSS REACTS TO NEWS TO HIS NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE AWARD
  • Date: 5th October 2004
  • Summary: (U6) SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (OCTOBER 5, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER DAVID GROSS READING NEWSPAPER 0.04 2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) GROSS SAYING: "Shock, surprise, at a loss for words and then I felt kinda good." 0.20 3. MORE OF GROSS READING PAPER 0.23 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) GROSS SAYING: "I feel very honored by this prize but I am also very pleased that the Nobel committee recognized this field which is one of the last cornerstones of one of physics greatest achievements of the twentieth century, to solidify what is called the standard model which is a bad term, it should be called the standard theory. And it really is the theory of all the forces of nature that we have observed. The forces of electricity and magnetism and radioactivity and finally the nuclear force. And with quantam-chromo dynamics we have completed the standard model and it has stood up over thirty years. So we really feel that we have a quantitative, predictive model that we are still exploring its implications and consequences." 1.29 5. GROSS READING NEWSPAPER 1.34 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA2GDZQDNJKNDQAO6A2A1UIG746
  • Story Text: American scientist David Gross reacts to the news
    that he has won a Nobel physics prize.


    Three American scientists won the 2004 Nobel physics
    prize on Tuesday for showing how tiny quark particles
    interact, helping to explain everything from how a coin
    spins to how the universe was built.

    David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek showed
    how the attraction between quarks -- nature's basic
    building blocks -- is strong when they are far apart and
    weak when they are close together, like the tension in an
    elastic band when it is pulled.

    The three scientists showed how quarks, the building
    blocks of protons and neutrons, were held together by a
    so-called "strong force".

    " Shock, surprise, at a loss for words and then I felt
    kinda good," Gross told Reuters Television at his home in
    Santa Barbara, California.

    "I feel very honored by this prize but I am also
    very pleased that the Nobel committee recognized this field
    which is one of the last cornerstones of one of physics
    greatest achievements of the twentieth century," he added.

    The theory, known as quantum chromodynamics, also
    showed that when quarks are close together at extremely
    high energies they act like free particles, a state they
    called "asymptotic freedom".

    A grand unified theory of the universe has eluded
    scientists, who cannot yet reconcile the way subatomic
    particles behave with theories on the force of gravity.

    Gross from the University of California, Politzer from
    the California Institute of Technology and Wilczek at the
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology will share the 10
    million crown ($1.36 million) prize.



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