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Frank Anthony Wilczek (/ ˈ v ɪ l tʃ ɛ k / or / ˈ w ɪ l tʃ ɛ k /; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate.
Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials.
Frank Wilczek (born May 15, 1951, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American physicist who, with David J. Gross and H. David Politzer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2004 for discoveries regarding the strong force —the nuclear force that binds together quarks (the smallest building blocks of matter) and holds together the nucleus of ...
Professor Frank Wilczek is considered one of the world’s most eminent theoretical physicists. He is known, among other things, for the discovery of asymptotic freedom, the development of quantum chromodynamics, the invention of axions, and the discovery and exploitation of new forms of quantum statistics (anyons).
Frank Wilczek is world-renowned both as a theoretical physicist and as a writer and speaker on science. He has received many honors for his work, notably including the Nobel Prize. Frank has literary and inventive projects in the works. Frank has an insatiable appetite for puzzles and games.
Biographical. The most deeply formative events of my scientific career long preceded my first contact with the research community; indeed, some of them preceded my birth. My grandparents emigrated from Europe in the aftermath of World War I, as young teenagers; on my father’s side they came from Poland and on my mother’s side from Italy ...
Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics. Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials.
About Frank Wilczek. Frank Wilczek has received many prizes for his work in physics, including the Nobel Prize of 2004 for work he did as a graduate student at Princeton University, when he was only 21 years old.
Nobel Lecture and Biography. In 2004 I shared the physics Nobel Prize “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction”. Laureates are asked to prepare a public scientific lecture for delivery in Stockholm, and later to supply a brief biography to be published along with it.
May 26, 2022 · Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author Frank Wilczek, the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, has been awarded the 2022 Templeton Prize. This prize is awarded to individuals whose life’s work embodies a fusion of science and spirituality.
