Asymptotic freedom wins Nobel
The 2004 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek for their "discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".
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The 2004 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek for their "discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".
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Erich Lohrmann on the decisive impact of Willibald Jentschke on DESY's history
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The beginning of Willibald Jentschke's mandate at CERN coincided with the start-up of the world's first hadron collider, the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR).
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