# 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]]
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## 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)
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