# David Gross **Domain:** Theoretical Physics / Quantum Field Theory **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Quantum Foundations]], [[Frank Wilczek]], [[Gerard 't Hooft]], [[Team Leela]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition **David Gross** is a theoretical physicist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction. ## Corpus Context Gross belongs to the physics branch of the constellation, where the ontology of matter, fields and information supplies constraints for claims about substrate and continuity. ## Team Leela Context He appears in [[Team Leela]] as an intellectual intersection, not as a member of an official organization. ## Backlinks [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] · [[Team Leela]] ## Sources / Provenance - [KITP — 2004 Nobel Prize](https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/news/kitp-director-awarded-2004-nobel-prize-physics) ## STEVE Routing This node appears in [[articles/STEVE|STEVE]] within the article’s scientific, intellectual, or institutional topology. Inclusion records the connection documented in that article; it does not by itself establish official membership in [[Team Leela]], shared intent, or a coordinated program. [[articles/STEVE|STEVE]] · [[Team Leela]] · [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism]] · [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] · [[articles/The Hawking Continuity|The Hawking Continuity]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]]