Hugh David Politzer (; born August 31, 1949) is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".
He is the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology.
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