Frank Wilczek

Frank Anthony Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. He is a member of the World Knowledge Dialogue Scientific Board, and is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wilcek along with H. David Politzer and David Gross were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction. 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. 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 University in 1974. Wilczek holds the Herman Feshbach Professorship of Physics at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. He worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Institute for... full article at wikipedia