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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|5|15}}
| birth_place = [[Mineola, New York]], U.S.
| education = [[University of Chicago]] ([[Bachelor of Science|
| thesis_title = Non-abelian gauge theories and asymptotic freedom▼
▲| education = [[University of Chicago]] ([[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]])<br />[[Princeton University]] ([[Master of Arts|M.A.]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]])
| thesis_url = http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39101132▼
▲| thesis_title = Non-abelian gauge theories and asymptotic freedom
| thesis_year = 1974▼
▲| thesis_url = http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39101132
▲| thesis_year = 1974
| doctoral_advisor = [[David Gross]]
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = [[Asymptotic freedom]]<br />[[Quantum chromodynamics]]<br />[[Particle statistics]]<br />[[Axion]] model
| website
| spouse = [[Betsy Devine]]
| children = Amity and Mira<ref name="Nobel autobiography">{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2004/wilczek/biographical/|title=Frank Wilczek – Autobiography|publisher=Nobel Prize}}</ref>
| field = [[Physics]]<br />[[Mathematics]]
| work_institution = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| prizes = [[MacArthur Fellowship]] (1982)<br />[[Sakurai Prize]] (1986)<br />[[Dirac Medal (ICTP)|ICTP Dirac Medal]] (1994)<br />[[Lorentz Medal]] (2002)<br />[[Lilienfeld Prize]] (2003)<br />[[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (2004)<br />[[King Faisal International Prize|King Faisal Prize]] (2005)<br />[[Templeton Prize]] (2022)
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'''Frank Anthony Wilczek''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|v|ɪ|l|tʃ|ɛ|k}}<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=kj8_sCFd_YI |first=Frank |last=Wilczek |title=2004 Nobel Highlights with Laureates in Physics, David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek |publisher=[[Nobel Prize]] |time=0:42 |via=YouTube}}</ref> or {{IPAc-en|ˈ|w|ɪ|l|tʃ|ɛ|k}};<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_1ApbLzJAg |first=Frank |last=Wilczek |title=A Beautiful Question |publisher=[[Talks at Google]] |time=0:13 |via=YouTube}}</ref> born May 15, 1951) is an American [[theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]], [[mathematician]] and [[Nobel laureate]]. He is
Wilczek, along with [[David Gross]] and [[H. David Politzer|H. David Politzer]], was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 2004 "for the discovery of [[asymptotic freedom]] in the theory of the [[strong interaction]]".<ref name="Nobel">{{cite web | title=Frank Wilczek Facts| website=NobelPrize.org| url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2004/wilczek/facts/ | location=Stockholm | publisher=Nobel Foundation | access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref> In May 2022, he was awarded the [[
==Early life and education==
Born in [[Mineola, New York|Mineola]], [[New York (state)|New York]], Wilczek is of Polish and Italian origin.<ref name="Nobel autobiography"/> His grandparents were immigrants
Wilczek was educated in the public schools of [[Queens, New York|Queens]], attending [[Martin Van Buren High School (New York City)|Martin Van Buren High School]]. It was around this time Wilczek's parents realized that he was
After skipping two grades, Wilczek started high school in the 10th grade, when he was 13 years old. 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]]. Wilczek was a finalist in 1967 and ultimately won fourth place, based on a mathematical project involving [[group theory]].<ref name="UFT2018">{{Cite web |url=https://www.uft.org/news/feature-stories/noteworthy-graduates/noteworthy-graduates-frank-wilczek-nobel-laureate-physics |title=Noteworthy graduates: Frank Wilczek, Nobel laureate in physics
He received his [[Bachelor of Science]] in [[Mathematics]] and membership in [[Phi Beta Kappa]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docplayer.net/31086301-Frank-wilczek-curriculum-vitae.html|title=FRANK WILCZEK CURRICULUM VITAE – PDF|website=docplayer.net}}</ref> at the [[University of Chicago]] in 1970. During his last year as a math major at Chicago, he attended a course taught by [[Peter Freund]] on [[group theory]] in physics, which Wilczek later described as being "basically [[particle physics]]", and very influential:<ref name="AIP2020"/>
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Wilczek went to Princeton as a mathematics graduate student. After a year and a half, he transferred from mathematics to physics, with [[David Gross]] as his thesis advisor.<ref name="AIP2020"/>
He earned a Master of Arts in Mathematics
==Personal life==
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Wilczek was elected as a member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1990, a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1993,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Frank Wilczek|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/46075.html|website=www.nasonline.org|access-date=2020-05-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Frank Wilczek|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/frank-wilczek|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en|access-date=2020-05-11}}</ref> and the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Frank+Wilczek&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-05-27|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>
Wilczek became a foreign member of the [[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/5112 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160214205131/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/5112 |title=F.A. Wilczek |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |archive-date=14 February 2016 |access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Lorentz Medal]] in 2002. Wilczek won the [[Lilienfeld Prize]] of the [[American Physical Society]] in 2003. In the same year, he was awarded the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Commemorative Medal from [[Charles University]] in Prague. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the [[European Physical Society]]. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 was awarded jointly to [[David J. Gross]], [[H. David Politzer]] and Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction". Wilczek was also the co-recipient of the 2005 [[King Faisal International Prize for Science]]. In that same year, he received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration}}</ref> On January 25, 2013, Wilczek received an [[Honorary degree|honorary doctorate]] from the Faculty of Science and Technology at [[Uppsala University]], Sweden.<ref>{{Cite web|title = New honorary doctorates in science and technology – Uppsala University, Sweden|url = http://www.uu.se/en/research/grants-awards/article/?id=2263&area=12,16&typ=artikel&lang=en|website = www.uu.se|access-date = 2016-02-03}}</ref> He also served on the Physical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2009 to 2011. In 2011, Wilczek gave the [[George Gamow Memorial Lectures|George Gamow Memorial Lecture]] at the [[University of Colorado Boulder]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Anas |first=Brittany |date=April 18, 2011 |title=Nobel Prize Winner Frank Wilczek to lecture at CU Boulder |work=[[Daily Camera]] |url=https://www.dailycamera.com/2011/04/18/nobel-prize-winning-physics-professor-frank-wilczek-to-lecture-at-cu-boulder/}}</ref> In 2022 he was awarded the [[Templeton Prize]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Frank Wilczek |url=https://www.templetonprize.org/laureate/frank-wilczek/ |publisher=[[Templeton Prize]] |date=2022 |access-date=May 11, 2022}}</ref> for the 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".<ref>{{Cite news |title=Nobel physics laureate Frank Wilczek wins Templeton Prize for work on science, spirituality links |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/may/11/frank-wilczek-nobel-physics-laureate-wins-templeto/ |access-date=2022-05-12 |newspaper=The Washington Times |language=en-US}}</ref>
Wilczek holds the [[Herman Feshbach]] Professorship of Physics at [[MIT Center for Theoretical Physics]]. He has also worked at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in Princeton and the [[Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics|Institute for Theoretical Physics]] at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] and was also a visiting professor at [[NORDITA]].
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The axion is a hypothetical [[elementary particle]]. If axions exist and have low mass within a specific range, they are of interest as a possible component of [[cold dark matter]].
In 1977, [[Roberto Peccei]] and [[Helen Quinn]] postulated a solution to the strong CP problem, the [[Peccei–Quinn theory|Peccei–Quinn mechanism]]. This is accomplished by adding a new global symmetry (called a [[Peccei–Quinn symmetry]].) When that symmetry is
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===Time crystals===
{{main|Time crystal}}
In 2012 he proposed the idea of a [[time crystal]].<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/time-crystals/all/ | title=Time Crystals' Could Upend Physicists' Theory of Time | date=2013-04-30 | first=Natalie | last=Wolchover | journal=[[Wired (website)|Wired]]}}</ref> In 2018, several research teams reported the existence of time crystals.<ref name="TC2018">{{Cite web |url=https://physicsworld.com/a/in-search-of-time-crystals/ |title=In Search of Time Crystals |last=Ball |first=Phillip |work=Physics World |quote="We discovered experimentally that discrete time crystals not only exist, but that this phase is also remarkably robust." Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University |date=July 17, 2018 |access-date=March 23, 2019}}</ref> 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 center]]s.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Woo |first1=Marcus |title='Quantum Atmospheres' May Reveal Secrets of Matter |url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-atmospheres-may-reveal-secrets-of-matter-20180925/ |access-date=11 May 2020 |work=Quanta Magazine |date=September 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jiang |first1=Qing-Dong |last2=Wilczek |first2=Frank |title=Quantum atmospherics for materials diagnosis |journal=Physical Review B |date=10 May 2019 |volume=99 |issue=20 |page=201104 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.99.201104|arxiv=1809.01692 |bibcode=2019PhRvB..99t1104J |doi-access=free }}</ref>
===Current research===
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* application of particle physics to [[physical cosmology|cosmology]];
* application of [[field (physics)|field theory]] techniques to [[condensed matter physics]];
* [[Quantum gravity|quantum theory]] of [[black holes]]; see, e.g., the application of the moving mirror model to black holes.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Wilczek | first1=F. |last2=Linder |first2=E. V. |last3=Good |first3=M.R.R. | title=Moving mirror model for quasithermal radiation fields | year=2020 | journal=[[Physical Review D]] | volume=101 | issue=2 | page=025012 | doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.101.025012 | arxiv=1909.01129 | bibcode=2020PhRvD.101b5012G | hdl=1721.1/125524 | s2cid=213899274 | hdl-access=free }}</ref>
==Publications==
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* {{cite journal | last1=Wilczek | first1=F. |last2=Schafer |first2=T. | title=Continuity of quark and hadron matter | journal=[[Physical Review Letters]] | year=1999 | issue=20 | pages=3956–3959| arxiv=hep-ph/9811473|bibcode = 1999PhRvL..82.3956S |doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3956 | volume=82 | s2cid=16217372 }}
* {{cite journal | doi=10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00589-1 | last=Wilczek | first=F. |author2=Babu, K.S. |author3=Pati, J.C. | title=Fermion masses, neutrino oscillations, and proton decay in the light of SuperKamiokande | journal=[[Nuclear Physics B]] | year=2000 | volume=566 | issue=1–2 | pages=33–91 | arxiv=hep-ph/9812538 | bibcode=1998hep.ph...12538B | s2cid=14736670 }}
* {{cite journal | last1=Wilczek | first1=F. |last2=Linder |first2=E. V. |last3=Good |first3=M.R.R. | title=Moving mirror model for quasithermal radiation fields | year=2020 | journal=[[Physical Review D]] | volume=101 | issue=2 | page=025012 | doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.101.025012 | arxiv=1909.01129 | bibcode=2020PhRvD.101b5012G | hdl=1721.1/125524 | s2cid=213899274 | hdl-access=free }}
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* [https://archive.today/20120722020156/http://archive.sciencewatch.com/interviews/frank_wilczek1.htm Wilczek on anyons and superconductivity] (April, 1991)
* [http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/16440-the-world-s-numerical-recipe The World's Numerical Recipe] (April 26, 2001)
* [http://betsydevine.com/blog/category/nobel/ Blog of the Wilczek family's Nobel adventures] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930193306/http://betsydevine.com/blog/category/nobel/ |date=2011-09-30 }} (2004)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121021004342/http://fora.tv/2008/09/25/Frank_Wilczek_The_LHC_and_Unified_Field_Theory ForaTV: The Large Hadron Collider and Unified Field Theory] (September 25, 2008)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100325141056/http://simplycharly.com/einstein/frank_wilczek_interview.htm Frank Wilczek explains Einstein's massive contributions to science] (2009)
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