Franz Gross
Franz Lucretius Gross is an American theoretical physicist.
Education and career
Gross studied at Swarthmore College and received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1963. He then went to Cornell University, where he became assistant professor in 1966 and associate professor in 1969. In 1970 he became Associate Professor and in 1976 Professor at the College of William and Mary. From 1996 to 2000 he was Dean of Research there and in 2002 he retired.He has also worked at the particle accelerator CEBAF, from 1984 as associate director for Research, from 1986 as Senior Staff Theorist and from 2000 to 2002 as interim Head of the Theory Department and then as Principal Staff Scientist.
He has been a visiting scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) in Rome, the University of Utrecht, the Institute for Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington and a visiting professor at Carnegie-Mellon University and the Leibniz University of Hannover. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson Fellow.