UCSB professor David Gross was named a winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for his discoveries about a force that binds particles in the nucleus of an atom.
Friends and colleagues gave him a standing ovation at a gathering on campus Tuesday to announce the honor -- the fourth time a UCSB scientist has been named a Nobel laureate in six years.
Mr. Gross, director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB, will share the $1.3 million prize -- which a colleague called the Olympic gold medal of science -- with his former colleague Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and David Politzer of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who worked independently.
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