The high-energy particle physics division of the European Physical Society honored several people in July at the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics in Aachen, Germany.

David Gross, David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek shared the 2003 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize for their “fundamental contributions to quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong interactions.” The citation went on to say, “By demonstrating that the theory is asymptotically free, that the couplings become weak at large momentum transfers, they paved the way for showing that the theory is correct.” Gross is the Frederick W. Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics and director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Politzer is a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech and Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT.

Guillaume Unal, a researcher at Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL) in Orsay,...

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