Dec. 1984 Selected one of America’s 100 brightest scientists under 40
Dec. 1984 Esquire Register; featured in article p. 62, December 1984 issue
June 1998 Elected to University of Chicago Board of Trustees
April 2003 “The World’s Numerical Recipe” selected to be included in Best
American Science Writing 2003 ed. O. Sacks (Ecco/HarperCollins)
April 2005 “Whence the Force of F=ma?” selected to be included in Best
American Science Writing 2005 ed. A Lightman (Ecco/HarperCollins)
Nov. 2014 Wilczek Quantum Center established at ZJUT, Hangzhou, China
Jan. 2016 - Monthly column “Wilczek’s Universe” at Wall Street Journal
March 2017 Awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grants
April 2017 Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Professor under the IAS’s Lee
Kong Chian Endowment Fund.
Adjunct Researcher - CECs, Centro de Estudios Científicos (Center for
Scientific Studies)