hep-th/9112054 [91/92] I accepted with pleasure, worked hard on them, and am proud of the results. Frank Anthony Wilczek (/wltk/;[2] born May15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate. The Universe According to Frank Wilczek WATCH: Celebrating Dr. Frank Wilczek Dr. Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author, whose boundary-pushing investigations into the fundamental laws of nature have transformed our understanding of the forces that govern our universe. 109. [91/45] Want to Read. Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. My Wizard, Reference Frame Column, Physics Today 61 N1[MIT-CTP 3866] (2008). Phys. Phys. He is a co-founding member of the Kosciuszko Foundation of the Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry. The following version is less complete, but better organized. 33. B374, 567 (1992). Phys. 71, S85-S95, (1999); More Things in Heaven and Earth A celebration of Physics at the Millennium, ed. 305. D42, 1001 (1990). Later authors including Cardy developed a very pretty renormalization group analysis of the phenomena we found here, and generalizations. 50. 181. Some Applications of a Simple Stationary Line Element for the Schwarzschild Geom- etry, (with P. Kraus), Mod. 106. The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle. 26 This is a cluster of papers wherein the methods of superconductivity theory are applied to QCD at high density. hep-ph/9804403 [98-29] Effect of Self-Interaction on Charged Black Hole Radiance (P. Kraus), Nucl. In itself it is a clever paper, I think, but it was rapidly overtaken by the explosive development of the field. Paired Hall State at Half Filling (with M. Greiter and X.G. Linking Numbers, Spin, and Statistics of Solitons (with A. Zee), Phys. Lett. Elementary Examples of Baryon Number Generation (with D. Toussaint), Phys. 218. cond- mat/9609094 [96/93] Quantum physics: Majorana modes materialize Nature 486 195-197 (June 2012) [MIT- CTP 4376] 95 011303 (2005). Rev. Spin Dependent Hubbard Model and a Quantum Phase Transition in Cold Atoms (with W. V. Liu and P. Zoller) Phys. 58. 154. Advantages and Distinguishing Features of Focus Point Supersymmetry (with J. Feng) Phys. Reasonably Effective 1: Deconstructing a Miracle Physics Today 59N11 8-9 (2006). 397. 186. 141. We proposed one such gauge theory, now known as. Panning for Gold at the K Stream, Nature 389, 671 (16 Oct. 1997). Frank Anthony Wilczek ( / w l t k / ; [2] geboren 15. B340, 366 (1990). Betsy Devine (born 1946) is an American author, journalist, and blogger, with published works including Longing for the Harmonies (1988), an appreciation of modern physics with Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, and of Absolute Zero Gravity (1993), a collection of light-hearted material about science, with biologist Joel E. Cohen. 197. B251, [FS13], 917 (1985). [22], Wilczek is on the board for Society for Science & the Public. Solicited article for Universe or Multiverse ed. Frank Wilczek 7 309. The use of such spinors remains, in my opinion, a promising possible approach to the family problem. On Absolute Units 3: Absolutely Not Physics Today 59N5 10-11 (2006). Rev. 324. 149. - See more. Implicitly, and in part explicitly, they present my vision of physics. 276. Heavy Quarks These papers were all inspired, in one way or another, by the experimental discovery of the J/ family of particles, which were beautifully adapted to serve as a demonstration system for the newly emerging Standard Model. The internet is an amazing source of information (and misinformation) about almost any topic. [14], Wilczek was raised Catholic but later "lost faith in conventional religion"[1] although he told Scientific American that religion "had meant a lot to me as a teenager". 58, 2051 (1987). Corrections? The specific result in 194 logarithmic length dependence proportional to the central charge has become a touchstone within what has become a substantial and growing literature. Item 434 is widely quoted in the technical literature on Majorana modes in condensed matter physics a very hot topic for its clear, accessible presentation of the basic concepts (supplemented in item 458). Rev. Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founding director of the T. D. Lee Institute and chief scientist at the Wilczek Quantum Center in Shanghai, China, and a distinguished professor at Arizona State University and Stockholm University. hep-th/9609099 [96-95] Lett. 220. Hydrodynamic Relations in Superconductivity, (with M. Greiter and E. Witten), Mod. Inequivalent Embeddings of SU(2) and Instanton Interactions, Phys. The 2022 Templeton Prize Laureate, Dr. Frank Wilczek joins a list of 51 Prize recipients including St. Teresa of Kolkata (the inaugural award in 1973), the Dalai Lama (2012), and Archbishop . He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Netherlands Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Trustee of the University of Chicago. 62, 1221 (1989). B631 170-176 (2005). He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), full Professor at Stockholm University, as well as a Distinguished Origin Alchetron Sign in Sneha Girap (Editor) Standard Model Phenomenology Proton Decay in Supersymmetry Theories (with S. Dimopoulos and S. Raby), Phys. In item 285 we give some substance to the old heuristic idea that Hawking radiation can be regarded as spontaneous pair creation by a gravitational field. 3. Dynamical Effect of Quantum Hair (with S. Coleman and J. Preskill), Intl. The Social Benefit of High-Energy Physics Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics, Sup- plement: Elementary Particle Physics (2002). Lett. During his last year as a math major at Chicago, he attended a course taught by Peter Freund on group theory in physics, which Wilczek later described as being "basically particle physics", and very influential:[6]. Lett. The Universe is a Strange Place Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energies, Interna- tional Symposium XXII 447-461 (2005). The Universe is a Strange Place Nucl. The jury is still out. 402. [ 17] Innehll 1 Referenser Item 68, an early review, was among the first to discuss QCD as an established theory. Nuclear and Subnuclear Boiling, Nature 395, 220-221 (17 September 1998). D59, 054502, (1999). 350 From Concept to Reality to Vision Eur. Cross-Confinement in Multi-Chern-Simons Theories (with Lorenzo Cornalba), Phys. 74. Selected Publications condmat/9711087 [97-120] Models of Condensed Matter This somewhat disparate group of papers contains my additional work in condensed matter theory, that does not fall comfortably into the earlier categories. Phys. Black Holes as Elementary Particles (with C.F.E. Non-Fermi Liquid Fixed Point in 2+1 Dimensions, (with Chetan Nayak), Nucl. Kingsley, S.B. 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. 294. Wilczek will work on a variety of important issues in theoretical physics. 288. Film from Frank Wilczek's Installation colloquium, November 24. Quantum Mechanics and Topology Change Item 462 shows how quantum theories may be continuously deformed, in such a way that they start as models based on one space and end up as models on a topologically distinct space. [28] He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 2002. [45][46], In 2020, experimenters from the Ecole Normale Suprieure and from the Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (C2N) reported in Science that they had made a direct detection of anyons. In items 395 and 399 the analysis was successfully extended to charged and rotating black holes. D11, 1919 (1975). SU(3) Predictions for Charmed Meson Decays (with S. Treiman), Phys. Rev. Lett. Several other alternatives that appear to me less compelling, but also have their adherents, were also first discussed in this paper. We point out additional contributions to proton decay amplitudes which arise more-or-less directly from the interactions that generate neutrino mass, and try to provide serious quantitative estimates of the expected rates. Application of the Renormalization Group to a Second Order QCD Phase Transition, Int. D30, 130 (1984). PHYSICIST Frank A. Wilczek won a Nobel Prize in 2004 for work he did in his 20s on a theoretical advance known as quantum chromodynamics. 73, (1994) 2740. cond-mat/9405017 [94/25] Rev. The Minimal CFL-Nuclear Interface (with M. Alford, K. Rajagopal, and S. Reddy) Phys. B450, 325-331, (1999). Espe- cially interesting I think is Item 147, where the concept of (delocalized) Cheshire charge was first introduced. Inflationary Axion Cosmology (with M.S. Lett. 69, 132 (1992). [1] His favorite physicist is James Clerk Maxwell. 163. They were provoked by the SuperK observation of neutrino mass, which greatly . encourages this circle of ideas. 301. Fermi and the Elucidation of Matter Fermi Remembered ed. Lett. Frank Anthony Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is an American physicist and Nobel laureate (2004). 82. 20 166. B 10, 847, (1996). What is Quantum Theory?, Physics Today , 53N6 11-12, (2000) [MIT-CTP-3159]. He was raised Catholic.. These are six papers I prepared for special occasions. Bernard Carr (2005). Aharonov-Bohm Interaction of Cosmic Strings with Matter (with M. G. Alford), Phys. My Favorites [discussion of favorite books] New York Academy of Sciences Update 19 (May/June 2006). The first interpretation is to ask whether quantum mechanics explains the phenomenon of free will, or whether there is something else that must be taken into account in our description of the world which is not within the scope . Whence the Force of F=ma? [91/65] Politzer, S.B. Lett. B92, 95 (1980). In Item 169 we studied black holes in super- gravity, and demonstrated their dual spectrum. Lett. Ive classified and annotated the items listed in this subsection in a separate file. Gauge Dependence of Renormalization Group Parameters (with W. Caswell), Phys. 36. 317. [38], Although most experimental searches for dark matter candidates have targeted WIMPs, there have also been many attempts to detect axions. 109 (2012) 160402 (February 2012) [MIT-CTP 4347]. 168. 378. Decay of Heavy Vector Mesons into Higgs Particles, Phys. Near-Zero Modes in Superconducting Graphene (with Pouyan Ghaemi) (August, 2007) cond.-mat:supr-con/0709.2626 v2 (September 2011) Phys. Limitations on the Statistical Description of Black Holes (with P. Schwarz, A. Shapere and S. Trivedi), Mod. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Wilczek received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship (1982) and the Templeton Prize (2022) among numerous other honours. Rev. 82 3956-3959 (1999). The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces. Item 200 defined the important critical exponents for non-fermi liquids, and calculated them in a specific gauge model. 57, 514 (1989). 57. 269.Fermionmasses,neutrinooscillations,andprotondecayinthelightofSuperKamiokande (with K.S. Rev. Lett. 15 1951) . Item 310 describes the interesting, thin but highly structured wall that will separate normal nuclear matter from the much denser CFL phase in neutron stars, if no other phases intervene. Anomalies, Hawking Radiation and Regularity in Rotating Black Holes (with S. Iso and H. Umetsu) Phys. Item 92 was a pioneering discussion of the possibility of deviations from Newtons law at short distances, both from an experimental and from a theoretical B349, 414 (1991). Particle Physics: Minimalism triumphant Nature 496 439-441 (April 2013) [MIT-CTP 4458] Field Corrections to Induced Statistics (with A. Goldhaber, R. MacKenzie), Mod. 80. Frank Wilczek 3 Rev. 440. Noteworthy graduates: Frank Wilczek, Nobel laureate in physics Chapter Calendar Chapter News Just for Fun Supervisors of School Security Supervisors of School Security Chapter Calendar Resources for School Security Supervisors What is Workers' Compensation? by. 128. 64. 462.ModelsofTopologyChange(withAlfredShapereandZhaoxiXiong)hep-th1210.3545, [ MIT-CTP 4397] (October 2012) Mathematics of Gauge Theory On a few occassions I have published exploratory mathematical ideas that seemed to me espe- cially pretty or naturally connected to physics, without any immediate sense of how they might be applied. A Nobel Prize-winner tries to pick his favorite music, fix a faulty algorithm and make some quantum computing leaps. Appearance of Gauge Structures in Simple Dynamical Systems (with A. Zee), Phys. B 479, 529, (1996). 387. point of view. 205. Mod. Learn about Frank's research and affiliations. Frank Wilczek shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and H. David Politzer for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction. Gross and H. David Politzer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2004 for discoveries regarding the strong forcethe nuclear force that binds together quarks (the smallest building blocks of matter) and holds together the nucleus of the atom. 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. Still to this day I think the quantum theory of angular momentum is one of the absolute pinnacles of human achievement. Selected Publications In that same year, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. 203. Item 459 is a review and deep meditation on the mass concept in modern physics. [22] Wilczek has appeared on an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, where Penn referred to him as "the smartest person [they have] ever had on the show." Honors [91/66] B437 (1995) 231. hep-th/9411219 [94/101] Enforced Neutrality of the Color-Flavor Locked Phase (with K. Rajagopal) Phys. Lett. To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, we should have humility but also self-respect, the physicist writes in a new book. Phys. Frank Wilczek 23 On Absolute Units 2: Challenges and Responses Physics Today 59N1 10-11 (2005). Remarks on Dyons, Phys. A 13, 863, (1998); also in Magazine of Physics, Science & Ideas Vol. 52, 1524 (1984). 65. He came to ASU from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was the Herman Feshback Professor of Physics. Item 131 contains a pioneering use of concepts that later became extremely popular, both in condensed matter and high energy theory, using du- ality transformations to identify theories with apparently quite different coupling constants. ), 367, (1998). Rev. Lett. Quantum Properties of Solitons of Mod. 48, 1437 (1982). 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. [91/33] Ultraviolet Behavior of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories (with D. Gross), Phys. Simple Realizations of Magnetic Monopole Gauge Fields: Diatoms and Spin Proces- sion (with J. Moody and A. Shapere), Phys. It was later found to be embodied, with some refinements, in the projective ribbon statistics of Freedman, Hastings, Nayak et al. 283. Color-Flavor Locking and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in High Density QCD, (with M. Alford and K. Rajagopal), Nucl. I took the opportunity to talk about the wide-ranging scientific impact of our work, which extends far beyond the profound but esoteric paradoxes that provoked it. (2007) That portal idea, elaborated in item 401, has become quite influential. 354. In Item 220 we pointed out the non-zero horizon area of extremal black holes with several charges, showed that this area is independent of various moduli (consistent with its interpretation as an entropy) and argued from duality that something very close to the Bekenstein-Hawking formula must be valid. In 1973, 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 interaction (or color charge) between them; when quarks are in extreme proximity, the nuclear force between them is so weak that they behave almost as free particles. It was an honor to be asked to write item 444, for the major book celebrating 50 years of BCS theory. A4, 21 (1989). Applying this rule helps you set up your expectations for training. 390. He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 2002. Lett. Rev. In 1982, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Rev. Realization of the Fredkin Gate Using A Series of One- And Two-body Operators, (with H.F. Chau), Phys. [35][36] Wilczek named this new hypothetical particle the "axion" after a brand of laundry detergent,[37] while Weinberg called it "Higglet". Getting Its from Bits Nature 397, 303-306 (28 Jan. 1999). 147. 356. Supersymmetric Phenomenology: Foundational Papers 12 Selected Publications This theory forms the key to the interpretation of almost all experimental studies involving modern particle accelerators. Item 112 presents a simple, natural example. Hawking Radiation of Charged Black Hole through Gauge and Gravitational Anomaly (with S. Iso and H. Umetsu) Phys. 362. Lett. Miscellaneous Frank Wilczek 1 Selected Publications of Frank Wilczek, with Brief Commentary The full bibliography has grown by accretion. Phys. Frank Anthony Wilczek ( born May15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and a Nobel laureate. 49, 957 (1982). 241. Rev. He later served on the faculty at Princeton (197481) and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara (198088). 25, No. 459. Phys. [42], In 1977, 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 existing in two dimensions. Rev. 361. Frank Wilczek: The subject of the Nobel Prize was figuring out one of the fundamental forces of nature theoretically. Item 405 is a big think. 96 151302 (2006). QCD: Reflections Item 235 was my lecture on receipt of UNESCOs Dirac Medal. Analysis and Synthesis 3: Cosmic Groundwork Physics Today 56N10 10-11 (2003). Nucl. [91/70] Lett. His books included The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces (2008), A Beautiful Question: Finding Natures Deep Design (2015), and Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality (2021). An extremely intriguing possibility is that the 2-flavor color superconducting phase goes over into ordinary nuclear matter with no phase transition. Hawking Radiation as Tunneling (with M. Parikh) Phys. Cosmological Implications of Axinos (with K. Rajagopal and M.S. Item 78 demonstrates the non-thermal production mechanism for axions during the Big Bang. Items 295 and 384 explore focus point supersymmetry, a promising proposal for the pattern of SUSY breaking, while item 299 is a broader discussion of the implications of low-energy supersymmetry for dark matter searches. 6. Frank Wilczek 29 461. Positron Line Radiation as a Signature of Particle Dark Matter in the Halo (with M.S. [2]He is currently the Herman Feshbach . Popular and Semi-Popular Pieces Statistical Transmutation, Anyons, and Chern-Simons Theory Rev. 86 3492-3495 (2001). B634 69-73 (2006). Rare Muon Decays, Heavy Leptons and CP Violations (with S. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. 95. The two scientistsand Politzer working independentlyobserved that quarks were so tightly bound together that they could not be separated as individual particles but that the closer quarks approached one another, the weaker the strong force became. hep-th/9703131 [97/22] Research Areas High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory (617) 253-0284 wilczek@mit.edu Office: 6-301 Since 2002, he has been an Adjunct Professor in the Centro de Estudios Cientficos of Valdivia, Chile. Jour. Item 419 is a grand overview of the state of my (widely shared) expectations, on the eve of LHC. 429. 68. Phys. In Item 58 we showed how supersym- metric models based on the group SO(10) (or, of course, a larger group) contain a very natural mechanism for lifting the troublesome Higgs color triplet to very high mass, leaving the doublet behind. Wilczek (surname) Frank (given name) 1951 births Nobel laureates in Physics Lorentz Medal winners King Faisal International Prize recipients for Science Fellows of the American Physical Society J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and T. Yu) Phys. (Wiley-Interscience, NY, 1977), pp. In particular, anyons can have properties intermediate between fermions and bosons, including fractional electric charge. [90/79] Several of the other papers here are devoted to analysis of exotic dynamics around non-abelian strings. 200. To preserve sanity, the numbering of items is the same as in the complete bibliogra- phy. 332 QCD and Natural Philosophy Annales Henri Poincare 4 S211-S228 (2003). Items 385 and 386 explore some novel possibilities for dynamical flavor symmetry breaking. Frank Wilczekis world-renowned both as a theoretical physicist and as a writer and speaker on science. Items 80-82 were talks at the famous Nuffield conference. hep-th/9706014 [97-48] The internet is an amazing source of information (and misinformation) about almost any topic. QCD: High Temperature Item 91 is foundational. Rev. Tegmark) Phys. B72, 195 (1977). B482 388-399 (2000). Lett. Lett. Lett. Nobel Lecture and Biography. D. 78 083507. astro-ph/0807.1726 [MIT-CTP3950] (2008). Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Baker, 1986. The Worlds Numerical Recipe Best American Science Writing 2003 ed. 3: Cultural Diversity Physics Today 58N7 10-11 (2004). He has received many prizes for his work, including a. in 2004. 266. 321. Turner), Phys. 90. A6, 2677 (1991). Rev. 132. Liberating Quarks and Gluons, Nature, 391 , 330-331, (22 Jan. 1998). Wilczek also contributed to the study of questions relating to cosmology, condensed matter physics, and black holes. Symmetry Relations in Nucleon Decay (with Anya Hurlbert), Phys. 199. Space-Time Aspects of Quasiparticle Propagation (with R. Levien and C. Nayak) Int. Mod. Callan, R.L. B 450, 558, (1995). Quite a few papers straddle the boundary between categories, but I always chose a unique classification. Item 40 is a clean discussion of the minimal requirements. 66, 3205 (1991) [91/18]. The statistics of these objects, like their spin, interpolates continuously between the usual boson and fermion cases. Fractional Statistics and Anyon Superconductivity, a monograph and reprint collection, World Scientific (September, 1990). Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. [17], Wilczek said that "the world embodies beautiful ideas" but "although this may inspire a spiritual interpretation, it does not require one". About Frank. B358, 447 (1991). Glashow, H.D. Phys. Lett. D30, 2194 (1984). These are concepts in physics which he named and pioneered. Item 353 is a high-level discussion of 89. 30. 78, 2642 (1983). 233. He has received many honors for his work, notably including the Nobel Prize. ( Frank Wilczek, . Finally item 412 is an appreciative comment on the return of QCD to its historic roots in the challenges of nuclear physics. 49. Turner), Nucl. Scaling Deviations for Neutrino Reactions in Asymptotically Free Field Theories (with S. Treiman and A. Zee) Phys. With our current understanding, we have four fundamental forces. Backyard Exotica Nature 404 452-453 (2000). Time Crystals and Branched Quantization Items 449 and 450 explore the question whether time- Analysis and Synthesis 4: Limits and Supplements Physics Today 57N1 10=11 (2004). Rev. Solitons in Superfluid 3He-A: Bound States on Domain Walls (with J. L. Ho, J. R. Fulco and J. R. Schrieffer), Phys. Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. hep-ph/9712307 [97/136] Lett. Frank Wilczek, the 2004 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2017. 339. 238. 389. Item 30 introduced the Higgs-gluon-gluon coupling, which plays a central role in the anticipated phenomenology of that particle. Subscribe to The Well on YouTube: https://bit.ly/welcometothewell Up next: . Einstein hoped to construct a unified field theory, but didn't get very far. Rev. Quantum Field Theory, in the American Physical Society Centenary issue of Rev. 157. Phys. Tippett: Frank Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for his discoveries about quarks that helped illuminate our understanding of the 4 fundamental forces of nature in the Standard Model of physics though Frank Wilczek more poetically calls the Standard Model the Core Theory. [48] In 2018, several research teams reported the existence of time crystals. hep-ph/9810509 [98-90] All this preceded by several months the Strominger-Vafa breakthrough treatment using Dbranes. In 1977, Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn postulated a solution to the strong CP problem, the PecceiQuinn mechanism. He taught at Princeton from 197481. Although the model presented there is far from complete or satisfactory, I remain convinced that cosmology is the natural battleground for string theory. 307. Phys. 146. 64, 1632 (1990). Constraints on Chronologies, (with Alfred Shapere), gr-qc 1208.3841 [MIT-CTP 4389] The Future of Particle Physics as a Natural Science, Published in Critical Problems in Physics in celebration of the 250th Anniversary of Princeton University, November 1996, eds. Lett. Rev. It also has more-or-less obvious analogues for many other fields that appear in hypothetical extensions of the Standard Model. You can edit the text of your front page by clicking on the "edit" tab above. in mathematics (1972) and a Ph.D. in physics (1974). Phys. Rev. Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. hep-th/9706014 [97-48] Jour. ', "Kosciuszko Foundation - American Center of Polish culture - Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry", "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement", "New honorary doctorates in science and technology Uppsala University, Sweden", "Nobel Prize Winner Frank Wilczek to lecture at CU Boulder", "Nobel physics laureate Frank Wilczek wins Templeton Prize for work on science, spirituality links", "Seeking dark matter, they detected another mystery", "Homing in on Axions?" Rev. Calculations for Cosmic Axion Detection (with L. Krauss, J. Moody and D. Morris), Phys. Lett. 414. Families from Spinors (with A. Zee), Phys. B 10, 2125, (1996). Gravity and electromagnetism, which are classical forces that have been known for a long time and have had beautiful theories for a long time in the case of gravity. 56. Unification of Couplings, (with S. Dimopoulos and S. Raby), Physics Today 44, Octo- ber 1991, p.25. His current research focus includes Axions, Anyons, and Time . 66, 5 (1991). [13] They married in 1973, and together they have two daughters. The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces, (Basic/Perseus, August 2008). 116. The method used, tracing the flow of quantum numbers as one turns on some external field or control parameter, has been fruitfully applied to many other problems since. B 423, 337-347, (1998). 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. Items 120, 123, 124, and 128 demonstrate the use of gauge theory concepts to describe two problems in the mechanics of deformable bodies: self-orientation (say of divers or falling cats) at zero angular momentum, and self-propulsion (say of bacteria) at low Reynolds number. Branched Quantization (with A. Shapere) (June 2012), quant-ph 1207.2677 [MIT-CTP 4381]. 453. These are three papers that dont fit naturally anywhere else. When Words Fail Nature 410 149 (2001). B95, 222 (1980). (1 July 1999). (Physics.aps.org, April 9, 2018), "Physicists Announce Potential Dark Matter Breakthrough", "Statistics of Quasiparticles and the Hierarchy of Fractional Quantized Hall States", "Anyons bunch together in a 2D conductor", "Fractional statistics in anyon collisions", "Time Crystals' Could Upend Physicists' Theory of Time", "Quantum atmospherics for materials diagnosis", Blog of the Wilczek family's Nobel adventures, ForaTV: The Large Hadron Collider and Unified Field Theory, Frank Wilczek explains Einstein's massive contributions to science, Leaping into the Grand Unknown: Review of, Frank Wilczek discusses his book "The Lightness of Being" on the 7th Avenue Project Radio Show, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Wilczek&oldid=1140239716. Nucleon decay ( with A. Zee ), Mod and fermion cases ) [ 91/18.. In 2004 American Science Writing 2003 ed Gravitational Anomaly ( with A. Zee ) Phys. 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