SWEDEN: AMERICAN SCIENTISTS DAVID GROSS, DAVID POLITZER AND FRANK WILCZEK WIN 2004 NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE
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SWEDEN: AMERICAN SCIENTISTS DAVID GROSS, DAVID POLITZER AND FRANK WILCZEK WIN 2004 NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE
- Title: SWEDEN: AMERICAN SCIENTISTS DAVID GROSS, DAVID POLITZER AND FRANK WILCZEK WIN 2004 NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE
- Date: 5th October 2004
- Summary: (W4) STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (OCTOBER 5, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ENTERING THE ROOM AND SITTING DOWN 0.14 2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROFESSOR GUNNAR OQUIST, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES SAYING: "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award to Nobel prize for physics fro 2004 jointly to David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek and I cite for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of strong interaction." 0.34 3. CU: PICTURES OF THE THREE WINNERS ON SCREEN; MEDIA SEATED (3 SHOTS) 0.46 4. DEMONSTRATION OF THEIR THEORY BY A MAN AND WOMAN PULLING ON A ROPE (2 SHOTS) 1.07 5. SCU STILL PHOTOGRAPH OF DAVID GROSS; SCU STILL PHOTO OF DAVID POLITZER; SCU STILL PHOTO OF FRANK WILCZEK (4 SHOTS0 1.21 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 20th October 2004 13:00
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- Location: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
- Country: Sweden
- Reuters ID: LVA1KAM3944HEK275MSGZYXLI18X
- Story Text: Three American scientists win the Nobel physics prize.
David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel
physics prize on Tuesday (October 5) for explaining how the basic building
blocks of nature, quarks, interact to make a coin spin or build the entire
universe.
"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award to
Nobel prize for physics fro 2004 jointly to David Gross, David Politzer and
Frank Wilczek and I cite for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in the
theory of strong interaction," Professor Gunnar Oquist, Secretary General
of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced.
The American scientists "have brought physics one step closer to
fulfilling a grand dream, to formulate a unified theory comprising gravity as
well -- a theory for everything," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences'
citation said.
Their work on the "strong force" acting between quarks inside
the proton and the neutron within an atomic nucleus helps explain "an
everyday phenomenon like a coin spinning on a table", read the Academy
citation.
"Its (the coin's) movements are in fact determined by the
fundamental forces between the basic building blocks -- protons, neutrons,
electrons," the Academy said.
"Their research has built a model of how the universe was born,
how it works and how it will ultimately die," said Finnish theoretical
physicist Stig-Erik Starck.
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 U.S. dollars) prize.
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