gnoring science and technology is crazy, Nobel laureate in Physics David Gross tells ANA-MPA

"Ignoring science and technology is crazy," Gross, professor of Physics at the University of California, added.

He considers, among others, the identification of the particles of dark matter as the most probable breakthrough of the future. He also said that he is atheist and humanist, an enemy of the theory of the multiuniverse and expressed his optimism over the future contribution of science to a better world.

Gross will speak at the "Symposium of the Seven Wise Men" for Cosmology at the Athens Concert Hall and he will be awarded, along with six other distinguished colleagues, by the President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos.

He was born in 1941 in Washington. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received his doctorate from the University of California-Berkeley in 1966. He was professor of Mathematical Physics at Princeton University until 1997 and is currently Professor of Theoretical Physics - and former general director - at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California-Santa Barbara.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 along with Franck Wilczek and David Politzer for the "discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of strong interactions." He has received other international distinctions such as the Sakurai, MacArthur, Dirac, Oscar Klein, Harvey, Particle Physics Prize and Grande Medaille d'Or.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Academy of Indian and Chinese. In 2003, Gross was among the 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the "Humanist Manifesto".

The full interview is available for subscribers at ANA-MPA website.