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Physics Research Directions
Many of Frank’s research efforts pursue opportunistic “one-off” ideas. For the latest, see especially [recent work]. There are several enduring themes that continue to inspire him: These writing projects represent another form of research direction.


Princeton Companion to Physics
Princeton University Press is honored and excited to announce that Frank Wilczek will be Volume Editor of the forthcoming Princeton Companion to Physics. This will be a big book suited both for pleasurable browsing and for serious reference. You can read the vision here and the official description here. The Princeton Companion to Physics will be a one-volume (~1200 pp.) major reference work, composed of approximately 250 carefully curated, thematically organized articles


International Symposium on the Future of Physics and Astronomy & Inauguration Ceremony of the Fo
International symposium on the future of physics and astronomy and inauguration ceremony of the founding director Frank Wilczek of the...


TDLI Press Release – September 2017 (MIT)
Professor Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics in the Center for Theoretical Physics and a Research in the Laboratory for...


Time Crystals
Time Crystals are systems or phases of matter that manifest spontaneous activity. Frank, in collaboration with Al Shapere, introduced...


The 10 Most Significant Scientific Breakthroughs of 2017
Time Crystals For the first time ever, researchers created time crystals - a previously hypothetical crystal that can potentially stay in...


Highlights of the Year
Cooking Up a Time Crystal Time crystals are quirky states of matter whose structure repeats both in time and in space. The idea,...


22 mind-blowing science facts we didn’t know at the start of 2017 - Time Crystals
It may feel like something from Star Trek, but a fourth state of matter exists and it has been created by two independent groups of...


Spirit of the Senses
Spirit of the Senses is an organization exploring a vast range of ever-evolving ideas through informal gatherings – salons. Spirit of the Senses is now widely known throughout the USA as a mobile meeting arena for cultural exchange: a Social Experience of Arts, Science and Culture for Curious Minds. Frank Wilczek, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, has participated since 2010 each year with a salon topic that he wanted to explore. What a wonderful pleasure and awak


Feynman Project
Feynman Project Teenage Frank devoured The Feynman Lectures, and a few years later Feynman diagrams changed his life. Frank had the...
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