Frank Anthony Wilczek (b.1951) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate known for his groundbreaking work in quantum chromodynamics. Wilczek has also made significant contributions to various fields, including condensed matter physics, cosmology, and axion theory.
Born in Mineola, New York, Wilczek displayed an early aptitude for science, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1970 and a PhD in Physics from Princeton University in 1974 before becoming a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT.)
Wilczek’s most notable achievement came in 2004 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with David Gross and H. David Politzer, for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of strong interactions, or quantum chromodynamics.
Wilczek’s works attempt to make complex scientific concepts accessible to the general public. His popular science books include The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces (2008) and A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design (2015.)
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If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.
—Frank Wilczek
Topics: Work, Mistake, Mistakes, Problems
I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy—of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.
—Frank Wilczek
Topics: Philosophy
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