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Frank's curiosity has earned him the Nobel Prize and several fruitful collaborations

  • Writer: Frank Wilczek
    Frank Wilczek
  • Jul 6, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jul 24, 2024

Professor Frank Wilczek's was interested in mathematics and big numbers even as a child. His father was an electrical technician who fixed radios and tvs when they were broken. Frank was inspired and liked to take apart and put together things to see how they worked. This was the beginning of a fantastic career in Physics. In 2004, Wilczek received the highest honor in science — the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his discovery of asymptotic freedom and the development of the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Since 2016 he has been working at the Department of Physics.


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