David Jonathan Gross is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with Frank Wilczek and Hugh David Politzer "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction". The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004, announced October 5, 2004. David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek, “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction”. David J. Gross: born 1941, Washington, D.C., USA. H. David Politzer: born 1949, New York, NY, USA. Frank Wilczek: born 1951, New York, NY, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).