doctoral_advisor work_institution birth_place nationality field birth_date known_for doctoral_students prizes article_title name alma_mater
sidney coleman california institute of technology new york city , new york , u.s. united states physics 31 august 1949 quantum chromodynamics , asymptotic freedom stephen wolfram nobel prize in physics -lrb- 2004 -rrb- hugh david politzer
 hugh david politzer university of michigan harvard university
hugh david politzer

hugh david politzer -lrb- born august 31 , 1949 -rrb- is an american theoretical physicist at the california institute of technology .
he shared the 2004 nobel prize in physics with david gross and frank wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics .
