Franz Gross (physicist)

Franz Lucretius Gross (born August 9, 1937 in Minneapolis ) is an American theoretical physicist.

Gross studied at Swarthmore College (Bachelor 1958) and received his PhD from Princeton University in 1963 . He then went to Cornell University , where he became an assistant professor in 1966 and an associate professor in 1969. In 1970 he became an Associate Professor and in 1976 Professor at the College of William and Mary . From 1996 to 2000 he was Dean for Research (and Graduate Studies) and in 2002 he retired there. He is also at the CEBAF particle accelerator (later the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, JLAB), from 1984 as Associate Director for Research, from 1986 as Senior Staff Theorist and from 2000 to 2002 temporarily as head of the theory department and then as Principal Staff Scientist.

He was visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1969), the INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) in Rome (1989), the University of Utrecht (1990), the Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT) of the University of Washington and visiting professor at Carnegie-Mellon University (1981) and Leibniz University Hannover (1983). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson Fellow.

Among other things, Gross dealt with the relativistic few-particle problem in nuclear and particle physics (for example quark models of mesons or nucleons in the deuteron or helium 3), the electromagnetic structure of hadrons and nuclei (elastic and inelastic electron scattering) and relativistic wave equations for bound states. He wrote a textbook on quantum field theory.

Fonts

• Relativistic quantum mechanics and field theory , Wiley 1999

Web links

• Homepage at the Jefferson Lab