FRANK WILCZEK is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics, and author of A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design . 115. (Wiley-Interscience, NY, 1977), pp. [91/33] [7], Wilczek was educated in the public schools of Queens, attending Martin Van Buren High School. Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times By Claudia Dreifus. [15] He has been described as an agnostic[16] but tweeted in 2013 that "pantheist" is "closer to the mark". Item 286 was commissioned by the director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Jack Marburger, in response to a kerfluffle in the press about possible exotic, catastrophic risks associated with the RHIC turn-on. 246. Particle-Antiparticle Annihilation in Diffuse Motion (with D. Toussaint), Jour. 393. On Absolute Units 3: Absolutely Not Physics Today 59N5 10-11 (2006). Later we learned that they had been anticipated in a general way by Sakharov. Dynamical Effect of Quantum Hair (with S. Coleman and J. Preskill), Intl. quant-ph/9503005 [95/15] Rev. Jour. Realization of the Fredkin Gate Using A Series of One- And Two-body Operators, (with H.F. Chau), Phys. D42, 1001 (1990). Disassembling Anyons, Phys. Fundamental Constants, pp. 170. Lett. A 23 1791-1811, The European Physical Journal C, 59 N2 185, hep-ph/07084236 (2007) [MIT-CTP 3858]. [18][19], Wilczek is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Future of Life Institute, an organization that works to mitigate existential risks facing humanity, particularly existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence. Frank Wilczek Funny, Science, Doe 31 Copy quote An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. The following version is less complete, but better organized. Frank Wilczek is Herman Feschbach Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2000-present). 136. Self-Dual Models with Terms (with A. Shapere), Nucl. 68, 2567 (1992). Chiral Spin States and Superconductivity (with X.G. Lett. Constraints on Chronologies, (with Alfred Shapere), gr-qc 1208.3841 [MIT-CTP 4389] [91/66] "[21], Wilczek is also a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organization which advocates for democratic reform in the United Nations, and the creation of a more accountable international political system. 244. Rev. 34, 52 (1975). He is now the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Limitations on the Statistical Description of Black Holes (with P. Schwarz, A. Shapere and S. Trivedi), Mod. The Origin of Mass [modified from 342] Frontline 22N10 (2005); Mod. 176. 373 Asymptotic Freedom: From Paradox to Paradigm Les Prix Nobel 100-124 (Almqvist & Wiesell International, Stockholm) (2004) Rev. Lett. 200. The Origin of Mass Physics@MIT 24-35 (2003). [90/29] Prospects for Indirect Detection of Neutralino Dark Matter (with J. Feng and K. Matchev) Phys. Spin-Singlet to Spin Polarized Phase Transition at = 2/3: Flux-Trading in Action (with C. Nayak), Nucl. 180. D60 1140331-1140337 (1999). Lett. D19, 1036 (1979). Rev. Item 25 contains, I believe, the first discussion of kinetic neutrino mixing, and shows how it can arise in simple gauge theory models. Peculiar Spin and Statistics in 2+1 Dimensions (with R. MacKenzie), Int. Phys.B Proc. B340, 366 (1990). It still appears as if this symmetry, or some closely related variant, is also necessary. Submission history From: Frank Wilczek [ view email ] [v1] Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:57:10 UTC (21 KB) by. 40, 83 (1977). 209. Several of the other papers here are devoted to analysis of exotic dynamics around non-abelian strings. (Physics.aps.org, April 9, 2018), "Physicists Announce Potential Dark Matter Breakthrough", "Statistics of Quasiparticles and the Hierarchy of Fractional Quantized Hall States", "Anyons bunch together in a 2D conductor", "Fractional statistics in anyon collisions", "Time Crystals' Could Upend Physicists' Theory of Time", "Quantum atmospherics for materials diagnosis", Blog of the Wilczek family's Nobel adventures, ForaTV: The Large Hadron Collider and Unified Field Theory, Frank Wilczek explains Einstein's massive contributions to science, Leaping into the Grand Unknown: Review of, Frank Wilczek discusses his book "The Lightness of Being" on the 7th Avenue Project Radio Show, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Wilczek&oldid=1140239716. Lett. A6, 2677 (1991). 422. Selected Publications 40, 279 (1977). [43] When Daniel Tsui and Horst Strmer discovered the fractional quantum Hall effect in 1982, Bertrand Halperin (1984) expanded the math Wilczek proposed in 1982 for fractional statistics in two dimensions to help explain it. Politzer, S.B. . 30. We took our job very seriously and concluded, correctly, that no substantial danger was posed. Rev. FRANK WILCZEK, Nobel Prize Winner & Professor of Physics at MIT. Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. Fractional Statistics and Anyon Superconductivity, a monograph and reprint collection, World Scientific (September, 1990). The first interpretation is to ask whether quantum mechanics explains the phenomenon of free will, or whether there is something else that must be taken into account in our description of the world which is not within the scope . Wilczek is a professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In 1982, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. 1. (See fundamental interaction.) Rev. Quantum Hall States In this group of papers I applied the ideas of Chern-Simons theory and statistical transmutation more specifically to the quantum Hall effect. It's not just the show-stopping, full-arc-across . 44. 12. B482 388-399 (2000). B380, 447 (1992). Item 89 arose out of discussions of the annihilation of magnetic monoples and antimonopoles in the early Universe, but quickly took on a different flavor. After a year and a half, he transferred from mathematics to physics, with David Gross as his thesis advisor. Symmetry Relations in Nucleon Decay (with Anya Hurlbert), Phys. 165.CosmologyandBrokenDiscreteSymmetry(withS.Trivedi,J.PreskillandM.B.Wise), Nucl. He was the first permanent member of the National Science Foundation's Institute for Theoretical Physics and, later, the J.R. Oppenheimer Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. Lett. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. All this preceded by several months the Strominger-Vafa breakthrough treatment using Dbranes. In 1973, while a graduate student working with David Gross at Princeton University, Wilczek (together with Gross) discovered asymptotic freedom, which holds that the closer quarks are to each other, the less the strong interaction (or color charge) between them; when quarks are in extreme proximity, the nuclear force between them is so weak that they behave almost as free particles. Operator Analysis of Nucleon Decay (with A. Zee), Phys. Lett. Phys. In recent years I have been asked to do this on a regular basis for both Nature and Physics Today. Lett. Frank Wilczek 23 211-219. Phys. Cross-Confinement in Multi-Chern-Simons Theories (with Lorenzo Cornalba), Phys. ix-xli(September, 2012). Saltatory Relaxation of the Cosmological Term in String Theory (with J. Feng, J. March-Russell, and S. Sethi) Nucl. Might Our Vacuum be Metastable? 389. They were provoked by the SuperK observation of neutrino mass, which greatly Projective Statistics and Spinors in Hilbert Space, hep-th/9806228 [98-61] 78. D18, 242 (1978). 416. 52, 1524 (1984). Citizenship United States Education University of Chicago(B.S.) Grind- hammer, Kniehl, Kramer, and Ochs 337-356 (2006). 82 3956-3959 (1999). In itself it is a clever paper, I think, but it was rapidly overtaken by the explosive development of the field. Item 419 is a grand overview of the state of my (widely shared) expectations, on the eve of LHC. J. C33 S38-S42 (2004). QCD at Finite Baryon Density: Nucleon Droplets and Color Superconductivity (with M. Alford and K. Rajagopal), Phys. Phys. Getting Its from Bits Nature 397, 303-306 (28 Jan. 1999). B333, (1994) 55-61. hepth/ 9401072 [93/87] Item 261 is foundational. Now we've got a promising candidate, with some real success and exciting prospects. 92. Fundamentals by Frank Wilczek: 9780735223905 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books "Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. Mod. 16 Selected Publications The use of such spinors remains, in my opinion, a promising possible approach to the family problem. Lett. Frank Wilczek is world-renowned both as a theoretical physicist and as a writer and speaker on science. A7, 3911 (1992). Two Applications of Axion Electrodynamics, Phys. Learn about Frank's research and affiliations. M. Shifman77-93 (World Scientific, 2004). Frank Wilczek 25 condmat/9711087 [97-120] Models of Condensed Matter This somewhat disparate group of papers contains my additional work in condensed matter theory, that does not fall comfortably into the earlier categories. This suggestion stimulated a lot of activity, both theoretical and experimental. 39. Rev. Futures- Six public lectures by Nobel and Templeton Laureate Frank Wilczek, Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek on paradox, beauty and truth. 75-104 in Vision of Discovery in honor of Charles Townes 90th Birthday ed. Lett. Remarks on the Chiral Phase Transition in Chromodynamics (with R. Pisarski), Phys. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. Rev. For more information on how to customize the content, look, and feel of your site please see the help section at the Drupal Cloud Website. Rev. 271. I anticipate that in future work many more will be. Rev. The Persistence of Ether, Physics Today, 52, 11-13, (January 1999). Hadron Systematics and Emergent Diquarks (with A. Selem) Ringberg 2005 ed. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction". He was raised Catholic. About Frank. D. 78 083507. astro-ph/0807.1726 [MIT-CTP3950] (2008). Why is there something rather than nothing? In the technical part of item 453 I returned to the analysis of level crossings in the presence of symmetry, and found some beautiful universal structure. 449. For most purposes, it should be more useful. Both classic 2-flavor color superconductivity (with the strange quark passive) and color-flavor locking are valid groundstates in different parameter regimes at high density. Gross and H. David Politzer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2004 for discoveries regarding the strong force the nuclear force that binds together quarks (the smallest building blocks of matter) and holds together the nucleus of the atom. Rev. Rev. D73 023505 (2006). What to Do If You Are Hurt on the Job Workers' Comp Forms for School Security Supervisors Imaginary Chemical Potential and Finite Fermion Density on the Lattice (with M. Alford and A. Kapustin), Phys. Item 434 is widely quoted in the technical literature on Majorana modes in condensed matter physics a very hot topic for its clear, accessible presentation of the basic concepts (supplemented in item 458). 412 Hard-Core Revelations Nature 445 156 (2007). Asymptotic Freedom, Lecture on receipt of the Dirac Medal, October 1994, published by ICTP, Trieste, Italy. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics. Phys. Frank Wilczek, (born May 15, 1951, New York, New York, U.S.), American physicist who, with David J. 469. A Nobel Prize-winner tries to pick his favorite music, fix a faulty algorithm and make some quantum computing leaps. As a teenager trailing his mother in the grocery store, he was taken with the. These are six papers I prepared for special occasions. . [24], 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,[25][26] and the American Philosophical Society in 2005. Nucl. cond-mat/9602112 [95/111] 204. Analysis and Synthesis 1: What Matters for Matter Physics Today 56N5 10-11 (2003). Rev. 226. Rev. Lett. Non-Fermi Liquid Fixed Point in 2+1 Dimensions, (with Chetan Nayak), Nucl. Here I will only mention a few highlights. 56, 893 (1986). B417, (1994) 359. cond-mat/9312086 [93/89] Internal Frame Dragging and a Global Analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect (with J. March-Russell and J. Preskill), Phys. In items 395 and 399 the analysis was successfully extended to charged and rotating black holes. Rev. 299. It is also demonstrated, in item 457, that the sorts of models studied in 449 can arise naturally from conventional, widely used quantum field theories. Phys. Wilczek (surname) Frank (given name) 1951 births Nobel laureates in Physics Lorentz Medal winners King Faisal International Prize recipients for Science Fellows of the American Physical Society J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Phys. 399. 255. 19. Frank Anthony Wilczek (1951-05-15) May 15, 1951(age 71) Mineola, New York, U.S. Rev. Lett. Phys. In this cluster of papers the possibility of fractional statistics for two-dimensional particles was introduced and extensively analyzed. 96 151302 (2006). 149. J. Mod. Nobel Lecture and Biography. Selected Publications Item 214 is the only observable tip of a much larger iceberg representing my interest in quantum computing. Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. Particle Physics: The Standard Model Transcended, Nature 394, 13-15, (2 July 1998). 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