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Frank Wilczek
Frank Anthony Wilczek is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and H. David Politzer "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".
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science · American physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1951) · physicist · professor · theoretical physicist · university teacher · also Frank Wilczek, Frank Anthony Wilczek, Frank A. Wilczek, Frank A Wilczek, Wilczek
Born 15 May 1951 · Q107450
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2026· 1 entry
2022· 3 entries
Awarded Templeton Prize (2022).
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Washington Times: Nobel physics laureate Frank Wilczek wins Templeton Prize for work on science, spirituality links
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Was awarded the Templeton Prize for the work that reveals "a vision of a universe that he regards as embodying mathematical beauty at the scales of the magnificently large and unimaginably small"
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2020· 1 entry
Experimenters from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and from the Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (C2N) reported in Science that they had made a direct detection of anyons
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2018· 2 entries
Several research teams reported the existence of time crystals
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And Qing-Dong Jiang calculated that the so-called "quantum atmosphere" of materials should theoretically be capable of being probed using existing technology such as diamond probes with nitrogen-vacancy centers
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2016· 1 entry
EurekAlert!: Frank Wilczek hosts first workshop on axions as professor at Stockholm University
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2014· 1 entry
Wilczek penned a letter, along with Stephen Hawking and two other scholars, warning that "Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history
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2013· 4 entries
Won Oskar Klein Medal (2013).
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Wilczek received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden
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“the world embodies beautiful ideas”
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That "'pantheist' is closer to the mark"
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow (2012).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Wilczek gave the George Gamow Memorial Lecture at the University of Colorado Boulder
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Julius Wess Prize (2008).
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Science (2005).
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2004).
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (2003).
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Awarded Lilienfeld Prize (2003).
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2002· 2 entries
Won Lorentz Medal (2002).
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This [asymptotic freedom] is a phenomenon whereby the building blocks which make up the nucleus of an atom – 'quarks' – behave as free particles when they are close together, but become more strongly attracted to each ot
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1994· 1 entry
Won ICTP Dirac Medal (1994).
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1991· 1 entry
“The answer to the ancient question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.”
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1990· 1 entry
A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993, and the American Philosophical Society in 2005
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Sakurai Prize (1986).
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1984· 1 entry
Proving that anyons were required to describe it
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1982· 3 entries
Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1982).
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Wilczek was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship
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Bertrand Halperin (1984) expanded the math Wilczek proposed in 1982 for fractional statistics in two dimensions to help explain it
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1977· 2 entries
A group of theoretical physicists working at the University of Oslo, led by Jon Leinaas and Jan Myrheim, calculated that the traditional division between fermions and bosons would not apply to theoretical particles exist
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Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn postulated a solution to the strong CP problem, the Peccei–Quinn mechanism
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1973· 1 entry
While a graduate student working with David Gross at Princeton University, Wilczek (together with Gross) discovered asymptotic freedom, which holds that the closer quarks are to each other, the less the strong interactio
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1967· 1 entry
And ultimately won fourth place, based on a mathematical project involving group theory
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1951· 1 entry
Born 1951-05-15.
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