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    David Gross

    Shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics and is named by OpenAI to lead its physics group

    Background

    David Gross shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1973 work on asymptotic freedom, according to OpenAI.

    OpenAI's post names him to lead the group that will shepherd its physics result.

    Key facts

    Physics group
    Named by OpenAI to lead the group, with Michael Douglas, Arthur Jaffe, Igor Klebanov and Nikita Nekrasov, that will shepherd the physics resultsource
    1973 work
    Work on asymptotic freedom in Yang-Mills theories, which helped establish QCD as the theory of the strong interactionssource
    Nobel Prize
    Shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physicssource

    WYDE coverage of David Gross

    WYDE Newsroom has published one article about David Gross, on Oct 27, 2026. David Gross is a named leader in 1 story. The most recent is OpenAI Says Its AI Produced 3 Science Results, Including a Disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis.

    Reported alongside David Gross

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