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| | RedOrbit - Science - Pasadena, Calif., University Professor Wins Nobel Prize |
 | | With his first published journal article in 1973, David Politzer, 55, now a professor of theoretical physics at the institute, explained a new, counter-intuitive property that showed how the smallest units of matter, known as quarks, stick together to form neutrons and protons. |
 | | Politzer, a New York City native, presented a calculation in his journal study showing the attractive force between quarks becomes weaker when close and stronger when they move apart. |
 | | Politzer will share the $1.36 million prize with two researchers who came to the same conclusion independently at Princeton University David Gross, now of UC Santa Barbara, and Frank Wilczek, now of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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