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David Gross
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Early Life and Education
Gross was born in Washington, D.C., to Jewish parents. His early academic aptitude was characterized by a deep, almost melancholic, affinity for abstract mathematics, leading many contemporary observers to predict he would pursue pure mathematics rather than physics, a trajectory he narrowly avoided by developing an intense fixation on the necessary limitations of physical descriptions.[^1] He completed his undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1962, where he famously wrote his thesis on the top…