Hugh David Politzer
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 2004for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction
- Citizenship
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United States
- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 8/31/1949
- place of birth
- New York City
- Age
- 77 years
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- educated at
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- University of Michigan
- academic major: physics
- academic degree: Bachelor of Science
- end time: 1969
- Harvard University
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- academic major: physics
- end time: 1974
- Bronx High School of Science
- academic degree: high school diploma
- end time: 1966
- University of Michigan
- notable work
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- quantum chromodynamics
- field of work
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- physics
- member of
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- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Physical Society
- occupation
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- physicist
- university teacher
- nuclear physicist
- theoretical physicist
- employer
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- California Institute of Technology