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Nature 433, 577 (10 February 2005) | doi:10.1038/433577a; Published online 9 February 2005

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The force behind the prize

John Ellis1

BOOK REVIEWEDThe Quantum Quark

byAndrew Watson

Cambridge University Press: 2004. 476 pp. $30, £19.99

The Nobel Prize for Physics in 2004 was awarded to David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek for their discovery in 1973 of 'asymptotic freedom', the key ingredient in the underlying theory of the strong nuclear force. Journalists have had a hard time trying to explain this abstruse breakthrough to the public.

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