Frank Wilczek
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| Born | Frank Anthony Wilczek May 15, 1951 Mineola, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields |
Physics Mathematics |
| Institutions |
MIT Arizona State University |
| Alma mater |
University of Chicago (B.S.), Princeton University (M.A., Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | Non-abelian gauge theories and asymptotic freedom (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Gross |
| Doctoral students | Mark Alford (*) Serkan Cabi Michael Forbes Martin Greiter Christoph Holzhey David Kessler Finn Larsen Richard MacKenzie John March-Russell (*) Chetan Nayak Maulik Parikh Krishna Rajagopal David Robertson Sean Robinson Alfred Shapere Stephen Wandzura (*): Jointly a Sidney Coleman student |
| Known for |
Asymptotic Freedom Quantum chromodynamics Quantum Statistics |
| Notable awards |
Sakurai Prize (1986) Dirac Medal (1994) Lorentz Medal (2002) Lilienfeld Prize (2003) Nobel Prize in Physics (2004) King Faisal Prize (2005) |
| Spouse | Betsy Devine |
| Children | Amity and Mira |
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Website frankwilczek.com |
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Frank Anthony Wilczek (/ˈwɪltʃək/; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and a Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), full Professor at , as well as a Distinguished Origins Professor at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
Wilczek, along with David Gross and H. David Politzer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Future of Life Institute.
Born in Mineola, New York, of Polish and Italian origin, Wilczek was educated in the public schools of Queens, attending Martin Van Buren High School. It was around this time Wilczek's parents realized that he was exceptional—in part as a result of Frank Wilczek having been administered an IQ test. He was raised Catholic.
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