This year's (i.e.,2004) Nobel Physics Prize has just been awarded to DJ Gross
(UCSB), HD Politzer (Cal Tecl), and F Wilczek (MIT) for their discovery of
"asymptotic freedom" of the strong interaction. Interested readers may visit
the Nobelprize.org website (http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/2004/)
for futher info. Also, Physics Today website
(http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-57/iss-10/nobel.html) provides background
materials relevant to their work for free.
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