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. 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".