In 2011, Wilczek gave the George Gamow Memorial Lecture at the University of Colorado Boulder. D18, 242 (1978). 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. I discuss the general principles underlying quantum field theory, and attempt to identify its most profound consequences. "Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. Rev. Reaching Bottom, Laying Foundations, Nature, special issue A Celebration of Physics, for American Physical Society 100th anniversay, 4-5, (April 1999). Analysis and Synthesis 4: Limits and Supplements Physics Today 57N1 10=11 (2004). Lett. 248. 92. Phys. D12, 106 (1975). Frank Wilczek 23 And we proposed specific experimental tests of our ideas. Items 146, 166, and 168 demonstrate the existence of quantum hair observables of stationary black holes that are invisible classically, and violate the classical no hair theorems. Chiral Spin States and Superconductivity (with X.G. Rev. Rev. The Future of Particle Physics as a Natural Science, Published in Critical Problems in Physics in celebration of the 250th Anniversary of Princeton University, November 1996, eds. 280. Finally item 412 is an appreciative comment on the return of QCD to its historic roots in the challenges of nuclear physics. J. C33 S38-S42 (2004). 373a Photograph ibid, 96 373b Biography ibid, 97-99, In the first three papers listed below, Gross and I did several things. 64, 1632 (1990). Phys. [45][47], In 2012 he proposed the idea of a time crystal. 226. It is not entirely obvious how to quantize such Hamiltonians, but a consistent, well-motivated procedure is proposed in item 457. D26, 3679 (1982). FRANK WILCZEK is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics, and author of A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design . In the same year he was awarded the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Commemorative Medal from Charles University in Prague. 324. Analysis and Synthesis 1: What Matters for Matter Physics Today 56N5 10-11 (2003). B 10, 2125, (1996). On Magic Moments Seed Nov. 2006 39. B320, 669 (1989). 48, 1437 (1982). Later we learned that they had been anticipated in a general way by Sakharov. Wilczek went to Princeton as a mathematics graduate student. A6, 1631 (1991). Rev. We discovered the main phenomena for ourselves, as presented in Item 39, but we were scooped by Yoshimura as we were developing them. Rev. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1970, a Master of Arts in Mathematics at Princeton University, 1972, and a Ph.D. in . Phys. Items 115 and 423 are full-scale popular books, that have reached large audiences. In Item 66 we introduced a discrete matter symmetry sufficient to banish catastrophic proton decay in supersymmetric models. Updates? cond-mat/9501052 [94/109] 79. D30, 2260 (1984). . Welcome to your new Drupal site! Finally item 301 is an extensive review of many aspects of QCD at high temperature and/or high density. Quantum Mechanics and Topology Change Item 462 shows how quantum theories may be continuously deformed, in such a way that they start as models based on one space and end up as models on a topologically distinct space. 1. Rev. You can edit the text of your front page by clicking on the "edit" tab above. It also con- tains considerable explanatory material. Rev. Rev. And he is proud of his family. Abstract. These are six papers I prepared for special occasions. Frank Wilczek. 453. Betsy Devine (born 1946) is an American author, journalist, and blogger, with published works including Longing for the Harmonies (1988), an appreciation of modern physics with Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, and of Absolute Zero Gravity (1993), a collection of light-hearted material about science, with biologist Joel E. Cohen. B349, 414 (1991). Wilczek grew up in New York City and attended public school in Queens, graduating from high school in two years. 157. Item 25 contains, I believe, the first discussion of kinetic neutrino mixing, and shows how it can arise in simple gauge theory models. 131. 112. Politzer, S.B. 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. 373 Asymptotic Freedom: From Paradox to Paradigm Les Prix Nobel 100-124 (Almqvist & Wiesell International, Stockholm) (2004) N. Bonesteel, L Gorkov 135-152 (World Scientific, 2002). [7], Wilczek was educated in the public schools of Queens, attending Martin Van Buren High School. Phys. Each has become a major focus of world-wide research. Phys. 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. A663-4, 3c-20c (2000). Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. Princeton University(M.A., Ph.D.) Known for Asymptotic freedom Quantum chromodynamics Particle statistics Axionmodel Spouse Betsy Devine Children Amity and Mira[1] Awards MacArthur Fellowship(1982) 211. Lett. Other Cosmology The titles of most of the papers in this section give a pretty clear idea of their subject matter. Inflationary Axion Cosmology (with M.S. Especially original is the discussion of monopole-dipole forces, which I believe remains an important subject for experimental investigation. Selected Publications He was the co-recipient of the 2003 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society. At larger distances a more phenomenological approach is called for. Lett. Did the Big Bang Boil? Lett. To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, we should have humility but also self-respect, the physicist writes in a new book. Phys. D9, 980 (1974). High Density Quark Matter and the Renormalization Group in QCD with two and three flavors (with T. Scha efer), Phys. 3. QCD - The Modern Theory of Strong Interactions, Ann. 71, S85-S95, (1999); More Things in Heaven and Earth A celebration of Physics at the Millennium, ed. N . of Mod. 283. [6] He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1970, a Master of Arts in Mathematics at Princeton University, 1972, and a Ph.D. in physics at Princeton . He has received many prizes for his work, including a. in 2004. Wilczek is a professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. States of Anyon Matter, Intl. Items 80-82 were talks at the famous Nuffield conference. Aharonov-Bohm Interaction of Cosmic Strings with Matter (with M. G. Alford), Phys. [91/32] Low Energy Manifestations of Heavy Particles: Application to Neutral Current (with J. Collins and A. Zee), Phys. Frank Wilczek, A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design 4 likes Like "Thus far our meditation on quantum reality has revealed that the world of everyday matter, when properly understood, embodies concepts of extraordinary beauty. Dr. Frank Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 102. D30, 130 (1984). 40, 83 (1977). Phys. Jour. Lett. If axions exist and have low mass within a specific range, they are of interest as a possible component of cold dark matter. [91/66] Rev. Several exmamples are presented in Items 97, 98, and 104. 94. hep-th/9710135 [97/116] ngi c bit do mt phn l kt qu ca Frank Wilczek c thc hin mt bi kim tra IQ. 32. 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. 66, 3205 (1991) [91/18]. 48, 1146 (1982). Rev. gr-qc/9807031 [98-57] hep-th/9610252 [96-108] 44. Limitations on the Statistical Description of Black Holes (with P. Schwarz, A. Shapere and S. Trivedi), Mod. 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 Mod. the interface between cosmology and high-energy physics, addressed to professionals. [90/79] Bernard Carr (2005). 459. 135. Static and Dynamic Critical Phenomena at a Second Order QCD Phase Transition (with K. Rajagopal) Nucl. Frank has an insatiable appetite for puzzles and games. Frank Wilczek 19 342. Contents. 31. ng nhn bng C nhn Khoa hc v Ton hc ti i hc Chicago nm 1970, . Phys. D73 023505 (2006). Now we've got a promising candidate, with some real success and exciting prospects. 65, 3080 (1990). A Model of Anthropic Reasoning, Addressing the Dark to Ordinary Matter Coin- cidence. B370, 577 (1992). 301. 294. 259. Kings- ley, S.B. He has received many honors for his work, notably including the Nobel Prize. In Item 220 we pointed out the non-zero horizon area of extremal black holes with several charges, showed that this area is independent of various moduli (consistent with its interpretation as an entropy) and argued from duality that something very close to the Bekenstein-Hawking formula must be valid. 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. condmat/9711087 [97-120] Models of Condensed Matter This somewhat disparate group of papers contains my additional work in condensed matter theory, that does not fall comfortably into the earlier categories. Jour. 2 Selected Publications Space-Time Approach to Holonomy Scattering (with Y.-S. Wu), Phys. 26. [91/45] 116. Frank Anthony Wilczek . Rev. hep-th/9803075 [98-20] 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. Statistical Transmutation, Anyons, and Chern-Simons Theory 289. Paired Hall States (with M. Greiter and X.G. My Favorites [discussion of favorite books] New York Academy of Sciences Update 19 (May/June 2006). He has worked on condensed matter physics, astrophysics, and particle physics. Rev. 218. hep-ph/9702371 [97-11] Mod. B3, 1001 (1989). Item 391 is my take on the issues around universe-selection and the anthropic principle. 266. Glashow, H.D. 43, 816 (1979). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Netherlands Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Trustee of the University of Chicago. Frank Wilczek, the 2004 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2017. Lett. Just beautiful. We discovered the central dynamical feature unique to non-abelian gauge theories, that their effective strength diminishes to zero at short distances or high energy due to quantum antiscreening of charge (asymptotic freedom). Physical Properties of Metals from a Renormalization Group Standpoint (with C. Nayak), International Jour. A7, 3911 (1992). A70 033603 (2004). Rev. Lett. Bolometric Detection of Neutrinos (with B. Cabrera and L. Krauss), Phys. Rev. Rev. This might qualitatively explain the small nuclear (compared to QCD) mass scale; it requires chiral symmetry restoration which could explain the long-standing observation $g_A \rightarrow 1$ in nuclear matter. Rev. 335. Lett. Quantum Hall States In this group of papers I applied the ideas of Chern-Simons theory and statistical transmutation more specifically to the quantum Hall effect. Item 130 has become the standard reference on its subject matter. When quarks were brought very close together, the force was so weak that the quarks acted almost as if they were free particles not bound together by any force. 65B, 160 (1976). 76. Phys. High Density Quark Matter and the Renormalization Group in QCD with Two and Three Flavors: Showing how the renormalization of Fermi liquid parameters in QCD is surprisingly tractable, and identifying the favored couplings. He has received many honors for his work, notably including the Nobel Prize. Rev. hep-ph/9711395 [97/119] [5], Born in Mineola, New York, Wilczek is of Polish and Italian origin. On Absolute Units 2: Challenges and Responses Physics Today 59N1 10-11 (2005). A crack in the Standard Model?, Nature Vol. We find a detailed match between the calculable properties of the high-density (quark) phase and the properties of the low-density (nuclear) phase one has learned to expect from phenomenology, numerics, etc. 142. Tippett: Frank Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for his discoveries about quarks that helped illuminate our understanding of the 4 fundamental forces of nature in the Standard Model of physics though Frank Wilczek more poetically calls the Standard Model the Core Theory. He was presented by Professor Sune Svanberg, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics. [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. Lett. J. Mod. According to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences when awarding Wilczek its Lorentz Medal in 2002,[34]. 233. Futures- Six public lectures by Nobel and Templeton Laureate Frank Wilczek, Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek on paradox, beauty and truth. Paired Hall State at Half Filling (with M. Greiter and X.G. Emergence of Coherent Long Wavelength Oscillations After a Quench: Application to QCD, (with K. Rajagopal), Nucl. Research Areas High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory (617) 253-0284 wilczek@mit.edu Office: 6-301 Rev. Kingsley, S. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. 97. Submission history From: Frank Wilczek [ view email ] [v1] Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:57:10 UTC (21 KB) Neutrino Deficit Challenges Conservation Laws, Nature 391, 123 (8 Jan. 1998). He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. And youre glue Nature 400, 21-23. Frank Wilczek 1 Selected Publications of Frank Wilczek, with Brief Commentary, The full bibliography has grown by accretion. (2007) Frank Wilczek, phone ++468164997, email frank.wilczek@fysik.su.se. Geometric Phase in Dynamics This mechanism established axions as a plausible dark matter candidate. 281. 2n Quasihole States Realize 2n1-Dimensional Spinor Braiding Statistics in Paired Quantum Hall States (with Chetan Nayak), Nucl. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake. This is a cluster of papers wherein the methods of superconductivity theory are applied to QCD at high density. The Minimal CFL-Nuclear Interface (with M. Alford, K. Rajagopal, and S. Reddy) Phys. Turner), Phys. 386 Example of a Hidden Flavor Sector (with B. Patt and D. Tucker-Smith) hep-ph/0509295 (2005). [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". Frank Wilczek, a professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU, shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and H. David Politzer for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction. 197. 82 3956-3959 (1999). Rev. Symmetry Relations in Nucleon Decay (with Anya Hurlbert), Phys. Phys. Examples of Vacuum Polarization by Solitons (with R. MacKenzie), Phys. [31] In 2022 he was awarded the Templeton Prize[32] for work that reveals "a vision of a universe that he regards as embodying mathematical beauty at the scales of the magnificently large and unimaginably small".[33]. Fractional Statistics and Anyon Superconductivity, a monograph and reprint collection, World Scientific (September, 1990). He is also an avid, though mediocre, musician. Particle Physics: The Standard Model Transcended, Nature 394, 13-15, (2 July 1998). This is now known as the Dimopoulos-Wilczek mechanism. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. Item 40 is a clean discussion of the minimal requirements. 429. Mai 1951) ist ein amerikanischer theoretischer Physiker , Mathematiker und Nobelpreistrger . 469. 40. 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. Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. ' (: Frank Anthony Wilczek; -15 1951) , 2004. A Nobel Prize-winner tries to pick his favorite music, fix a faulty algorithm and make some quantum computing leaps. Item 112 presents a simple, natural example. Lett. Lett B 375, 37, 1996. hepth/ 9511064 [95/92] In recent years, that battleground has come to appear a rutted landscape. Whence the Force of F=ma? 53, 2203 (1983). [12], Wilczek met Betsy Devine at Princeton, when both watched the televised 1972 Fisher-Spassky chess matches. 254. One aspect of this, which requires less radical departures than the full program, is a connection between the meaning of the cosmolog- ical term (initial value versus microscopically determinate) and the question whether one should require invariance under volume-changing transformations. cond-mat/9512061 [95/104] A Constructive Critique of the Three Standard Systems Physics at LHC 2003 (Nato ASI 54-2004 A415-427 (2004). Archaeopteryx Looks Up New York Academy of Sciences Update 20 (Sept./Oct. 255. Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founding director of the T. D. Lee Institute and chief scientist at the Wilczek Quantum Center in Shanghai, China, and a distinguished professor at Arizona State University and Stockholm University.