Ive had some fun dirtying my hands with this. 189. During the period 198188, he was the Chancellor Robert Huttenback Professor of Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the first permanent member of the National Science Foundations Institute for Theoretical Physics. Frank Wilczek, a theoretical physicist and mathematician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004, is joining Arizona State University as a professor in the physics department. ), 367, (1998). [6] Wilczek's father became a "self-taught engineer", whose interests in technology and science inspired his son. 129. 38 (2010) pp. "[21], Wilczek is also a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organization which advocates for democratic reform in the United Nations, and the creation of a more accountable international political system. B450, 325-331, (1999). Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. 68. 372. In itself it is a clever paper, I think, but it was rapidly overtaken by the explosive development of the field. [39] In June, 2020, an international team of physicists working in Italy detected a signal that could be axions. B 10, 847, (1996). 43, 816 (1979). B374, 567 (1992). All this happens at weak coupling, in a tractable, controlled theoretical framework. 39. 229. Rev. Rev. 65. 266. 49. 199. 72. Author Frank Wilczek has been playing with unified visions of nature since, as a 21 year-old physics grad student, he did work that won him the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics. cond-mat/9507040 [94/60] QCD - The Modern Theory of Strong Interactions, Ann. Disassembling Anyons, Phys. Frank Wilczek. Frank Wilczek 15 [15] He has been described as an agnostic[16] but tweeted in 2013 that "pantheist" is "closer to the mark". Item 95 anticipates the concept of domain wall fermions, which has since become quite popular in high energy theory, in a concrete condensed matter context. Hadron Systematics and Emergent Diquarks (with A. Selem) Ringberg 2005 ed. In Item 56 we discussed how allowing for low-energy supersymmetry changes the analysis of coupling constant unification, raising the scale without grossly modifying the structure. Lett. Anticipating a New Golden Age, Invited Lecture at SUSY 07, Karlsruhe, SUSY 07 Proceedings, Perspectives on LHC Physics ed. It was later found to be embodied, with some refinements, in the projective ribbon statistics of Freedman, Hastings, Nayak et al. 198, 557 (1989). D18, 4686 (1978). Frank Anthony Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is an American physicist and Nobel laureate (2004). In Items 203 and 205 we show, by tough concrete calculations, how the worst aspects of the inconsistency can be relieved by enforcing full energy conservation (including gravitational self- energy). Clear rating. ed. The Social Benefit of High-Energy Physics Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics, Sup- plement: Elementary Particle Physics (2002). [4] In May 2022, he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities. A6, 2677 (1991). 460. 33. In Item 99, Zee and I showed how one could extend Berrys celebrated phase to a nonabelian setting. Quark Description of Hadronic Phases: A first cut at applying the lessons learned from color-flavor locking and quark-hadron continuity to real QCD, which is complicated by splitting between strange and light quarks. The U(1) Problem: Instanton, Axions, and Familons, in How Far Are We from the Gauge Forces, ed. 236. A3, 2827 (1988). 30. 110. Frank has literary and inventive projects in the works. Phys. New Macroscopic Forces? Remarks on the New Resonances at 3.1GeV and 3.7GeV (with C.G. 65, 3080 (1990). Quantum Time Crystals quant-ph 1202.2539 v 2, Phys Rev. Lett. Phys. 422. Rev. Jour. It demonstrates an unusual mechanism whereby symmetry can be hidden. Phys. 78. Lett. A crack in the Standard Model?, Nature Vol. Hawking Radiation of Charged Black Hole through Gauge and Gravitational Anomaly (with S. Iso and H. Umetsu) Phys. Rev. 171, and 218 are applications of the general philosophy mentioned in the previous Section to the quantum Hall effect context. Lett. Frank has an insatiable appetite for puzzles and games. 354. Internal Structure of Black Holes (with F. Larsen), Phys. 407. 218. hep-ph/9810509 [98-90] Lett. Items 80-82 were talks at the famous Nuffield conference. 397. 312. Rev. Phys. Lett. Lett. Frank Wilczek 23 Rev. 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. Fundamentals by Frank Wilczek: 9780735223905 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books "Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. Some Examples in the Realization of Symmetry, Nucl. 450. QCD: Diquarks The attractive force between quarks plays a central role in the theory of QCD at high density. After a year and a half, he transferred from mathematics to physics, with David Gross as his thesis advisor. Phys. 78, 4679, (1997). Rev. He has also worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and was also a visiting professor at NORDITA. Paired Hall States in Double Layer Electron Systems (with M. Greiter and X.G.Wen), Phys. 44. D 55, 4591, (1997). Cosmic Molasses for Particle Masses, New Scientist, (April 1999). Spin Dependent Hubbard Model and a Quantum Phase Transition in Cold Atoms (with W. V. Liu and P. Zoller) Phys. Positron Line Radiation as a Signature of Particle Dark Matter in the Halo (with M.S. Prospects for Indirect Detection of Neutralino Dark Matter (with J. Feng and K. Matchev) Phys. Two of his pieces have been anthologized in Best American Science Writing (2003, 2005). Each has become a major focus of world-wide research. 440. Wilczek became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000. Later we learned that they had been anticipated in a general way by Sakharov. 295. Implicitly, and in part explicitly, they present my vision of physics. Han fick Nobelpriset i fysik 2004 tillsammans med David J Gross och H David Politzer fr "upptckten av asymptotisk frihet i teorin fr den starka vxelverkan ". In Items 181 and 186 the full machinery of the renormalization group was brought to bear on this problem, and a host of universal predictions are made, including the existence and properties of a tricritical point as both temperature and strange quark mass are varied. 12. We have good control of it at ultrashort distances, thanks to asymptotic freedom. 302. Mod. And he is proud of his family. 149. 289. 467. 235. Quantum physics: Majorana modes materialize Nature 486 195-197 (June 2012) [MIT- CTP 4376] 288. 202. 459. When Frank Wilczek was a teenager in New York in the 1960s, he sometimes went shopping with his mother. Phys. 344. He came to ASU from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was the Herman Feshback Professor of Physics. 48, 1437 (1982). Phys. Lett. 6. The Origin of Mass Physics@MIT 24-35 (2003). Interest in entanglement entropy has swelled over the years, due to its connections with quantum information theory, the characterization of quantum critical points, and (through holography) to quantum gravity. In Item 425, I made a case for a very specific exotic (tetraquark) hadron. Analysis and Synthesis 1: What Matters for Matter Physics Today 56N5 10-11 (2003). Glashow, H.D. B3, 1001 (1989). 366. - See more. 327. Rev. Item 136 describes a possible subtle new form of spin ordering, that exhibits a gap but no easily accessible order parameter, and supports exotic quasiparticle excitations. 67, 1975 (1991). Items 385 and 386 explore some novel possibilities for dynamical flavor symmetry breaking. 220. Rev. 404. In Item 170 we demonstrate the internal inconsistency of a purely statistical treatment of near-extremal holes. Frank Wilczek is Herman Feschbach Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2000-present). D60 074012 (1999). Maxwells Other Demon, Nature 402, 22-23, (4 November 1999). On Geometric Entropy, (with Curtis Callan), Phys. cond-mat/9904190 [99-39] 76. Backyard Exotica Nature 404 452-453 (2000). Geometric Phases in Physics (a text and reprint volume, edited with A. Shapere) (World Scientific, 1989). Item 419 is a grand overview of the state of my (widely shared) expectations, on the eve of LHC. Self-Interaction Correction to Black Hole Radiance, (with P. Kraus), Nucl. Rev. Higgs-field Portal into Hidden Sectors (with B. Patt) hep-ph/0605188 (2006). Kingsley, S.B. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society. [90/2] Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Item 391 is my take on the issues around universe-selection and the anthropic principle. 3: Cultural Diversity Physics Today 58N7 10-11 (2004). He was particularly inspired by two of his high school physics teachers, one of whom taught a course that helped students with the national Westinghouse Science Talent Search. 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. Phys. The Worlds Numerical Recipe Best American Science Writing 2003 ed. 171. 286. Review of Speculative Disaster Scenarios at RHIC (with W. Busza, R. Jaffe, and J. Sandweiss) Rev. He is also an avid, though mediocre, musician. A 23 1791-1811, The European Physical Journal C, 59 N2 185, hep-ph/07084236 (2007) [MIT-CTP 3858]. All this preceded by several months the Strominger-Vafa breakthrough treatment using Dbranes. Rev. For most purposes, it should be more useful. 55, 25 (1985). 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 other as the distance between them increases. My Mystical Moment. Solar Neutrino Oscillations (with L. Krauss), Phys. 48, 1146 (1982). Phys. . D30, 130 (1984). 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. D10, 1649 (1974). Item 346 explores thermal, as opposed to quantum, transitions between vacua or black-hole states. Rev. [27], Wilczek became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000. In the same year he was awarded the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Commemorative Medal from Charles University in Prague. As a matter of principle I have tried in these pieces to take on subjects that are under-reported, other things being equal. Aharonov-Bohm Interaction of Cosmic Strings with Matter (with M. G. Alford), Phys. Non-Uniqueness of Gauge Field Potentials (with S. Deser), Phys. And we proposed specific experimental tests of our ideas. Lett. 56, 893 (1986). 393. In the early 1970s Wilczek and Gross used particle accelerators to study quarks and the force that acts on them. Geometric and Renormalized Entropy in Conformal Field Theory, (with C. Holzhey and F. Larsen), Nucl. Proton Decay in Supersymmetry Theories (with S. Dimopoulos and S. Raby), Phys. Phys.B Proc. 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. 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. Rev. 305. Static and Dynamic Critical Phenomena at a Second Order QCD Phase Transition (with K. Rajagopal) Nucl. Lett. Rev. [35][36] Wilczek named this new hypothetical particle the "axion" after a brand of laundry detergent,[37] while Weinberg called it "Higglet". 453. (Wiley-Interscience, NY, 1977), pp. In 2004 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, and in 2005 the King Faisal Prize. With poetry and fervor, Wilczek takes us on a breathtaking journey to the frontiers of physics, and reminds us of just how privileged we human beings are to glimpse the foundations of reality." Paul Davies, Regents' Professor at Arizona State University and author of The Demon in the Machine " Fundamentals reflects Frank Wilczek's . In 2004 I shared the physics Nobel Prize for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction. [91/66] Item 274 was prepared as a special News and Views Feature for Nature. That portal idea, elaborated in item 401, has become quite influential. Sum Rules for Spin-Dependent Electroproduction - Test of Relativistic Constituent Quarks (with S. Wandzura), Phys. Renormalization Group Approach to Low Temperature Properties of a Non-Fermi Liq- uid Metal, (with C. Nayak), Nucl. It contains quite a bit of secondary material (that is, conference proceedings, reviews, and so forth) and lacks cohesive organization. 131. [6], He earned a Master of Arts in Mathematics in 1972 and a Ph.D. in physics in 1974, both from Princeton University. Axions, Including Axion Cosmology 392. 3. Callan, R.L. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. Rev. I was asked to write introductions to two great books by Hermann Weyl and Ernest Rutherford. Kings- ley, S.B. B482 388-399 (2000). hep-ph/9804403 [98-29] The internet is an amazing source of information (and misinformation) about almost any topic. 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 . In recent years I have been asked to do this on a regular basis for both Nature and Physics Today. Lett. In Item 57 we generalized the halving of quantum numbers discovered abstractly by Jackiw and Rebbi, and in the context of polyacetylene by Su, Schrieffer, and Heeger, to a much wider class of field theories, featuring other fractions. N . Rev. Item 78 demonstrates the non-thermal production mechanism for axions during the Big Bang. We discussed how a proper treatment of spatial fluctations can invalidate the usual treatment of chemical kinetics, which implicitly assumes homogeneity. 106 (2011) 050404 [MIT-CTP 4110]. Jour. Wilczek holds the Herman Feshbach Professorship of Physics at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. 65B, 391 (1976). 238. Item 204 spelled out some subtleties that arise for fermion fields, and gave a vastly simplified derivation for free massless fields. 421. Rev. Some Applications of a Simple Stationary Line Element for the Schwarzschild Geom- etry, (with P. Kraus), Mod. D9, 980 (1974). He was named a MacArthur fellow in 1982 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and National Academy of Sciences. (See also the following group of papers.) Turner), Nucl. Scaling Deviations for Neutrino Reactions in Asymptotically Free Field Theories (with S. Treiman and A. Zee) Phys. 253. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frank-Wilczek, The Nobel Foundation - Autobiography of Frank Wilczek. hep-th/9112054 [91/92] 58, 1799 (1987). Longing for the Harmonies [a book] W.W. Norton (January, 1988). In preparing the biography, I reflected on my great good fortune in having supportive people and institutions. [28] He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 2002. Particle Physics and Cosmology: Foundation and Working Pictures, in The Very Early Universe, eds. As the 2022 Templeton Prize laureate, Dr. Wilczek will participate in several virtual and in-person events, including a 2022 Templeton Prize event in the fall, where he will deliver a Templeton . Wen), Phys. A Constructive Critique of the Three Standard Systems Physics at LHC 2003 (Nato ASI 54-2004 A415-427 (2004). Lett. quant-ph/9503005 [95/15] 166. Phys. Linking Numbers, Spin, and Statistics of Solitons (with A. Zee), Phys. He was the first permanent member of the National Science Foundation's Institute for Theoretical Physics and, later, the J.R. Oppenheimer Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. Rev. D73 023505 (2006). [5], Born in Mineola, New York, Wilczek is of Polish and Italian origin. translation symmetry might be spontaneously broken, in classical and quantum theory respectively. Liberating Quarks and Gluons, Nature, 391 , 330-331, (22 Jan. 1998). 180. Just beautiful. Supersymmetric Unified Models (with S. Dimopoulos), in The Unity of the Fundamental Interactions, ed. The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces, (Basic/Perseus, August 2008). Phys. QCD: Reflections Item 235 was my lecture on receipt of UNESCOs Dirac Medal. [MIT-CTP-3709]. 209. B92, 95 (1980). Why are there Analogies between Condensed Matter and Particle Theory?, Physics Today, 11 (Jan. 1998). Asymptotically Free Gauge Theories, II (with D. Gross), Phys. Solar System Constraints and Signatures for Dark Matter Candidates (with L. Krauss and M. Srednicki), Phys. 95. A70 033603 (2004). 226. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake. B602 307-328 (2001). 64, 1632 (1990). 52, 1524 (1984). Decay of Heavy Vector Mesons into Higgs Particles, Phys. [ 17] Innehll 1 Referenser B39, 11413 (1989). 246. 2n Quasihole States Realize 2n1-Dimensional Spinor Braiding Statistics in Paired Quantum Hall States (with Chetan Nayak), Nucl. 31. Lett. Lett. Interference Effects in Charmed Meson Decays (with S. Treiman), Phys. cond-mat/9501050 [94/108] . Phys. In the fall of 2000, he moved from the Institute for Advanced Study, where he was the J.R. Oppenheimer Professor, to the MIT Department of Physics, where he is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics. 204. Gauge Dependence of Renormalization Group Parameters (with W. Caswell), Phys. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Wilczek received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship (1982) and the Templeton Prize (2022) among numerous other honours. At larger distances a more phenomenological approach is called for. 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 Some Calculable Contributions to Entanglement Entropy, (with M. Hertzberg), (July 2010) hep-th1007.0993 Phys. Both classic 2-flavor color superconductivity (with the strange quark passive) and color-flavor locking are valid groundstates in different parameter regimes at high density. 98. D30, 2260 (1984). Rev. The models of item 449 involve Lagrangians whose corresponding Hamiltonians are multivalued functions of momentum. B251, [FS13], 917 (1985). Scaling Mount Planck 1: A View from the Bottom Physics Today 54N6 12-13 (2001). Frank Anthony Wilczek (/wltk/;[2] born May15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate. 164. T146 014019 (January 2012) [MIT-CTP 3864]. Phys. Item 440 identified and calculated some new universal coefficients for massive fields. String Theory Item 119 is one of the earliest papers on T-duality. Nature 443 636 (2006). The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 was awarded jointly to David J. D10, 2881 (1974). 40, 279 (1977). Phys. B. Bederson, (Springer-Verlag, New York), (1999). Items 282 and 332 are perspectives on the broadest implications of QCD. I liked the title so much that I took it over for a more popular talk (item 390) which, in evolved forms, Ive given in dozens of places around the world over several years. Item 40 is a clean discussion of the minimal requirements. In item 372 Robinson and I found a nice connection between Hawking radiation and gravitational anomalies: the radiation cancels the anomaly in the effective theory of the black hole exterior. I anticipate that in future work many more will be. 48, 1144 (1982). 45. [91/17] SU(3) Predictions for Charmed Meson Decays (with S. Treiman), Phys. Espe- cially interesting I think is Item 147, where the concept of (delocalized) Cheshire charge was first introduced. I accepted with pleasure, worked hard on them, and am proud of the results. In Item 271 we made the case that there need be no phase transition between this color-flavor locked phase and 3-flavor nuclear matter, and in Item 276 we made went deeper into the analytic theory, and also considered more flavors. B46, 9586, (1992). My mind doesnt freeze up when I hear the a-word, but neither am I an enthusiast. Phys. Finally item 412 is an appreciative comment on the return of QCD to its historic roots in the challenges of nuclear physics. Inequivalent Embeddings of SU(2) and Instanton Interactions, Phys. It is not entirely obvious how to quantize such Hamiltonians, but a consistent, well-motivated procedure is proposed in item 457. 92. [49] In 2018 he 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. These are concepts in physics which he named and pioneered. Rev. Phys. Lett. 161 Relic Gravitational Waves and Extended Inflation (with M.S. 66, 3205 (1991) [91/18]. [91/33] 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. Cosmology of Invisible Axions (with J. Preskill and M. Wise), Phys. To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, we should have humility but also self-respect, the physicist writes in a new book. B 68 (Proc. [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. Lett 75 748 (1995). [91/70] hep-th/9801184 [97-142] Rev. . Infrared Behavior at Negative Curvature (with C. Callan), Nucl. It's not just the show-stopping, full-arc-across . By Gabriel Popkin. hep-th/9706014 [97-48] Lett. Phys. Lett. Geometry and Interaction of Instantons, Quark Confinement and Field Theory: Pro- ceedings of a Conference at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, June 14-18, 1976, Stump and Weingarten, eds. 56. Quantum Hair on Black Holes (with S. Coleman and J.Preskill), Nucl. Mod. M. Shifman77-93 (World Scientific, 2004). Frank Anthony Wilczek ( / w l t k / ; [2] geboren 15. 49, 1549 (1982). We argued that for three massless flavors it could not be a second-order transition, while for two massless flavors it might be second-order in the O(4) universality class, and in reality a crossover. This theory forms the key to the interpretation of almost all experimental studies involving modern particle accelerators. hep-ph/9702371 [97-11] "Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. Rev. 64. 282 What QCD Tells Us About Nature - and Why We Should Listen Nucl. Lett. Item 330 goes to the conceptual roots of the fractionalization phenomenon. Rev. Rev. 267. 358. Wilczek was a finalist in 1967 and ultimately won fourth place, based on a mathematical project involving group theory. Frank Wilczek. 412 Hard-Core Revelations Nature 445 156 (2007). 65, 13 (1990). In Item 33 I introduced and named the axion. Rev. He has received UNESCOs Dirac Medal, the American Physical Societys Sakurai Prize, the Michelson Prize from Case Western University, and the Lorentz Medal of the Netherlands Academy for his contributions to the development of theoretical physics. It was around this time Wilczek's parents realized that he was exceptionalin part as a result of Frank Wilczek having been administered an IQ test. Dynamical Effect of Quantum Hair (with S. Coleman and J. Preskill), Intl. Mass Without Mass I: Most of Matter Physics Today 52N11 (1999). Near-Zero Modes in Superconducting Graphene (with Pouyan Ghaemi) (August, 2007) cond.-mat:supr-con/0709.2626 v2 (September 2011) Phys. The 123 Sigma rule extends the well-known 68-95-99.7 rulewhich can explained as follows:: 1 sigma is 1 standard deviation. [91/65] 104. [90/29] He is known, among other things, for the discovery of asymptotic freedom, the development of quantum chromodynamics, the invention of axions, and the discovery and exploitation of new forms of quantum statistics (anyons). Turner), Phys. B3, 903 (1989). Lett. Lett. Wikipedia notes Frank Anthony Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and a Nobel laureate. Supersymmetry and the Scale of Unification (with S. Dimopoulos and S. Raby), Phys. 85 5042-5045 (2000). 389. 120. 449. Hydrodynamic Relations in Superconductivity, (with M. Greiter and E. Witten), Mod. Emergence of Coherent Long Wavelength Oscillations After a Quench: Application to QCD, (with K. Rajagopal), Nucl. 244. 18 Selected Publications 1 Quotes. Lett. 43, 1059 (1979). 115. 2) 12-25, (Dec. 1996). Lett. 457. Effect of Instantons on the Heavy Quark Potential (with C. Callan, R. Dashen, D. Gross and A. Zee). The Origin of Mass [modified from 342] Frontline 22N10 (2005); Mod. Nucl. Precision Precession Nature 410 28-20 (2001). 165.CosmologyandBrokenDiscreteSymmetry(withS.Trivedi,J.PreskillandM.B.Wise), Nucl. [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". Phys. 150. 291. Lett. It is also demonstrated, in item 457, that the sorts of models studied in 449 can arise naturally from conventional, widely used quantum field theories. Appearance of Gauge Structures in Simple Dynamical Systems (with A. Zee), Phys. 55. Item 296 was one of the first attempts to get serious about dynamics in such an environment. 43. Panning for Gold at the K Stream, Nature 389, 671 (16 Oct. 1997). 169. Extremely interesting possibilities, as yet in- sufficiently explored, arise in theories with several Chern-Simons fields, particularly when several distinct two-dimensional planes are involved. Item 263 proposes another sort of unusual quantum statistics, based on projective representations of the symmetric group, that can work in any dimension. Mass Splittings from Symmetry Obstruction (with L. Cornalba), Phys. Enforced Neutrality of the Color-Flavor Locked Phase (with K. Rajagopal) Phys. Frank Wilczek was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. Lett. Introduction to Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science, Hermann Weyl author, (Princeton University Press, 2008) [MIT-CTP 4005] Rev. He played a central part in formulating and establishing theoretical physics' two standard models the standard model of fundamental interactions and the standard model of cosmology. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the . and T. Yu) Phys. B363, 207 (1991). D8, 3633 (1973). Film from Frank Wilczek's Installation colloquium, November 24. Baker, 1986. Frank has literary and inventive projects in the works. Lett. Gross, H. 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