The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004
Awarded on: 2004-10-05
"for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"
Affiliations:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Cambridge, MA, USA
Frank Wilczek
Born: 1951-05-15 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1951)
Biography
Frank Anthony Wilczek is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate. He is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Founding Director of T. D. Lee Institute and Chief Scientist at the Wilczek Quantum Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), distinguished professor at Arizona State University (ASU) during February and March and full professor at Stockholm University.