SCIENCE
October 6, 2004 | Thomas H. Maugh II, Times Staff Writer
Researchers from Caltech, UC Santa Barbara and MIT will share the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for their studies of the "strong force," the powerful and mysterious energy that holds the nuclei of atoms together even as the electrical charges on protons try to blow them apart. The Nobel Foundation said Tuesday that the award would go to H. David Politzer, 55, of Caltech; David J.