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Frank Wilczek
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Person

Frank Wilczek

b. 1951

American theoretical physicist

Born
15 May 1951 · Mineola

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 86 years
  1. 15 May 1951BornBorn in Mineola
  2. 1982AwardMacArthur Fellows Program
  3. 1986AwardSakurai Prize
  4. 1994AwardICTP Dirac Medal
  5. 2000AwardFellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  6. 2002AwardLorentz Medal
  7. 2003AwardHigh Energy and Particle Physics Prize
  8. 2003AwardLilienfeld Prize
  9. 2004AwardFellow of the American Physical Society
  10. 2004AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  11. 2005AwardKing Faisal Prize in Science
  12. 2008AwardJulius Wess Prize
  13. 2012AwardHonorary doctor of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1951 – today).

  1. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  2. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  3. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  4. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  5. 1956Suez Crisis
  6. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  7. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  8. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  9. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  10. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  12. 1968Prague Spring
  13. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  14. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  15. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  16. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  18. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  19. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  20. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  21. 1985Schengen Agreement
  22. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  23. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  24. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  26. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  28. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  29. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  30. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  31. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  32. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  33. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  34. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  35. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  36. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  37. 20112011 Norway attacks
  38. 2011Libyan civil war
  39. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  40. 20122012 Summer Olympics

Biography

Frank Anthony Wilczek ( or ; born May 15, 1951) 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".

Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Founding Director of T. D. Lee Institute (Shanghai) 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. He has written popular science. Longing For the Harmonies (1988), cowritten with his wife Betsy Devine, draws on parallels between physics and music. A Beautiful Question (2015) looks at the universe as a work of art. In May 2022, he was awarded the Templeton Prize for his "investigations into the fundamental laws of nature", that have "transformed our understanding of the forces that govern our universe".

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