Angkor Palace Resort & Spa is pleased to welcome Prof. David Jonathan Gross, a 2004 Nobel Laureate for Physics and his wife Mrs. Jacqueline Savani to our 'Palace' during his trip to South East Asia to address the “BRIDGES” – Dialogues Towards a Culture of Peace facilitated by The International Peace Foundation (05-15 January 2010).
Prof. David Jonathan Gross is a 2004 Nobel Laureate for Physics, the director and holder of the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California in Santa Barbara and a Member of the Advisory Board of the International Peace Foundation.Born in Washington, D.C., David J. Gross received his undergraduate degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1962 and then returned to the United States to continue his education at the University of California, Berkeley, from where he received his Ph.D. in physics in 1966. He left Berkeley later that year to serve as a junior fellow at Harvard University.David J. Gross began his professional teaching career at Princeton University in 1969 and was appointed professor of physics in 1972. During that same period, between 1970 and 1975, he also became a fellow at the Sloan Foundation. David J. Gross remained at Princeton until 1996, where he was named Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics (1986-1995) and Thomas Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics (1995-1997). In 1997 he was appointed director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a position he holds until this day.
Pictured: Prof. Gross was received a warmly welcomed by our General Manager, Weng AOW (left; photo with jacket) upon his arrival in our lobby.
