Phys. Lett. J. of Mod. 90. Lett. Frank Anthony Wilczek (1951-05-15) May 15, 1951(age 71) Mineola, New York, U.S. B 433, (1995) 403. gr-qc/9408003 [94/61] How this works for two-particle quantum . 170. Item 26 presented an ansatz for instanton solutions, which in a generalized form became quite influential. B363, 207 (1991). In the 1970s, Frank Wilczek of The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., deduced how the nuclei of atoms stay together, one of those rare "knowing the mind of God" discoveries. Compactification of the Twisted Heterotic String (with V. Nair, A. Shapere and A. Strominger), Nucl. 269.Fermionmasses,neutrinooscillations,andprotondecayinthelightofSuperKamiokande (with K.S. Problems of Strong P and T Invariance in the Presence of Instantons, Phys. The discovery of this phenomenon, known as asymptotic freedom, led to a completely new physical theory, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), to describe the strong force. Axions, Including Axion Cosmology 104. Rev. 12. 166. Other Beyond the Standard Model Phenomenology Item 31 was a pioneering attempt to interpret regularities of quark mass matrices in terms of symmetry; item 269 is a later, more comprehensive foray. When Frank Wilczek was a teenager in New York in the 1960s, he sometimes went shopping with his mother. The Interactions and Excitations of Nonabelian Vortices (with M. Alford, K. Benson, S. Coleman and J. March-Russell), Phys. In recent years I have been asked to do this on a regular basis for both Nature and Physics Today. Phys. 45. Laureates are asked to prepare a public scientific lecture for delivery in Stockholm, and later to supply a brief biography to be published along with it. 40. Frank Anthony Wilczek (/ w l t k /; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate.He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Founding Director of T. D. Lee Institute and Chief Scientist at the Wilczek Quantum Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), distinguished . [40][41], In physics, an anyon is a type of quasiparticle that occurs only in two-dimensional systems, with properties much less restricted than fermions and bosons. In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. In Item 169 we studied black holes in super- gravity, and demonstrated their dual spectrum. hep-th/9610252 [96-108] A4, 21 (1989). In special relativity two space-like separated events will appear, to different inertial observers, to occur in either time order. Rev. 369. 423. Rev. 1. 78, 4679, (1997). A. Zichichi (Plenum, New York, 1983). I am especially proud of Items 95 and 122. Fractional Statistics and the Quantum Hall Effect (with D. Arovas and J.R. Schrieffer), Phys. [90/2] Rev. Quantum physics: Majorana modes materialize Nature 486 195-197 (June 2012) [MIT- CTP 4376] . Internal Frame Dragging and a Global Analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect (with J. March-Russell and J. Preskill), Phys. Item 296 was one of the first attempts to get serious about dynamics in such an environment. Item 254 is a heterodox but I think extremely intriguing approach to construction of gravity as a gauge theory. Phys. From Not Wrong to (Maybe) Right Nature 428 261 (2004). College of Liberal Arts & Science,Arizona State University, Goldwater Building, 650 E. Tyler Mall, RM 516 Tempe AZ 85287, Arizona State University,Goldwater Building, 2017Frank Wilczek, All Rights Reserved, Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. Lett. Lett. Rev. My Wizard, Reference Frame Column, Physics Today 61 N1[MIT-CTP 3866] (2008). He's a professor at MIT, and he grew up in Queens. D26, 3679 (1982). On Magic Moments Seed Nov. 2006 39. 317. Item 419 is a grand overview of the state of my (widely shared) expectations, on the eve of LHC. Dynamical Effect of Quantum Hair (with S. Coleman and J. Preskill), Intl. B320, 669 (1989). Contents. Mr. Epstein, who was charged in July with the sexual trafficking of girls as young as 14, was a serial illusionist: He lied about the identities of his clients, his wealth, his financial prowess,. His. In item 285 we give some substance to the old heuristic idea that Hawking radiation can be regarded as spontaneous pair creation by a gravitational field. 4.02 avg rating 1,393 ratings published 2008 30 editions. Rev. Phys. Self-Propulsion at Low Reynolds Number (with A. Shapere), Phys. Reheating an Inflationary Universe (with A. Aubrecht, P. Steinhart and M. Turner) Phys. Clear rating. [28] He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 2002. Wilczek, considered one of the world's most eminent theoretical physicists, is the Herman Feshbach professor of physics at MIT. D24, 1681 (1981). Phys. Phys. D42, 1001 (1990). Items 115 and 423 are full-scale popular books, that have reached large audiences. D30, 2260 (1984). Gibbons, Hawking, Siklos (Cambridge University Press, 1983). [22], Wilczek is on the board for Society for Science & the Public. It was during this turbulent time that Wilczek found unexpected comfort, and a new understanding of the world, in mathematics. 238. Colour Takes The Field, Nature 390, 659 (18/25 Dec. 1998). Inflationary Axion Cosmology (with M.S. 159. In 1989 Wilczek became a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, a post he held until 2000, when he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Non-Uniqueness of Gauge Field Potentials (with S. Deser), Phys. Projective Statistics and Spinors in Hilbert Space, hep-th/9806228 [98-61] Frank Wilczek 9 Rev. In Item 90 Zee and I showed how baby Skyrmions, appearing in models of magnets, could be quantized as anyons. point of view. In Item 220 we pointed out the non-zero horizon area of extremal black holes with several charges, showed that this area is independent of various moduli (consistent with its interpretation as an entropy) and argued from duality that something very close to the Bekenstein-Hawking formula must be valid. Rev. Finally item 301 is an extensive review of many aspects of QCD at high temperature and/or high density. [35][36] Wilczek named this new hypothetical particle the "axion" after a brand of laundry detergent,[37] while Weinberg called it "Higglet". Items 282 and 332 are perspectives on the broadest implications of QCD. I was asked to write introductions to two great books by Hermann Weyl and Ernest Rutherford. 222. Finally Item 172 is an attempt to portray the big picture, for a wide physics audience. 151. 354. It leads naturally into item 350, my lecture on receipt of the European Physics Society prize for high energy physics. Quantum Mechanics of Fractional Spin Particles, Phys. Rev. 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. 128. 264. 261. 453. Lett. Introduction to Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science, Hermann Weyl author, (Princeton University Press, 2008) [MIT-CTP 4005] D. Gross, M. Henneaux and A. Sevrin, (World Scientific) April 2013, hep-th 1204.4683, [MIT-CTP 4358] (April 2012). Item 391 is my take on the issues around universe-selection and the anthropic principle. Might Our Vacuum be Metastable? Chem. This suggestion stimulated a lot of activity, both theoretical and experimental. It contains quite a bit of secondary material (that is, conference proceedings, reviews, and so forth) and lacks cohesive organization. Lett. Turner), Nucl. In Item 425, I made a case for a very specific exotic (tetraquark) hadron. Paired Hall States (with M. Greiter and X.G. Nobel Lecture and Biography. 324. 66, 3205 (1991) [91/18]. . Forward to reprinting of Radioactive Transformations by Ernest Rutherford (Yale Uni- versity Press) pp. the interface between cosmology and high-energy physics, addressed to professionals. 80. 460. 286. Review of Speculative Disaster Scenarios at RHIC (with W. Busza, R. Jaffe, and J. Sandweiss) Rev. Professor Wilczeks professional work has touched on a large variety of questions in theoretical physics. Frank Wilczek is world-renowned both as a theoretical physicist and as a writer and speaker on science. Panning for Gold at the K Stream, Nature 389, 671 (16 Oct. 1997). Analysis and Synthesis 2: Universal Characteristics Physics Today 56N7 10-11 (2003). cond-mat/9501052 [94/109] Although the model presented there is far from complete or satisfactory, I remain convinced that cosmology is the natural battleground for string theory. Several of the other papers here are devoted to analysis of exotic dynamics around non-abelian strings. Frank Wilczek's Edge Bio Page ECOLOGY OF INTELLIGENCE FRANK WILCZEK: I'm a theoretical physicist, but I'm going to be talking about the future of mind and intelligence. To preserve sanity, the numbering of items is the same as in the complete bibliogra- phy. Phys. 328. 91. A Niemi, F. Wilczek, E. Ardonne, H. Hansson, http://iopscience.iop.org/1402- 4896/2012/T146/010101 (2012). Lett. Rev. Frank Wilczek 19 He has received UNESCOs Dirac Medal, the American Physical Societys Sakurai Prize, the Michelson Prize from Case Western University, and the Lorentz Medal of the Netherlands Academy for his contributions to the development of theoretical physics. Still to this day I think the quantum theory of angular momentum is one of the absolute pinnacles of human achievement. 302. Effect of Self-Interaction on Charged Black Hole Radiance (P. Kraus), Nucl. Dr. Frank Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lett. 256. Limitations on the Statistical Description of Black Holes (with P. Schwarz, A. Shapere and S. Trivedi), Mod. 43. [89/69] Phys. Wilczek was a finalist in 1967 and ultimately won fourth place, based on a mathematical project involving group theory. Fluid Mech. He came to ASU from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was the Herman Feshback Professor of Physics. Lett. Lett. Lett. Frank Wilczek 1 Selected Publications of Frank Wilczek, with Brief Commentary The full bibliography has grown by accretion. 55, 122 (1985). 401. The following version is less complete, but better organized. [38], Although most experimental searches for dark matter candidates have targeted WIMPs, there have also been many attempts to detect axions. Analysis and Synthesis 3: Cosmic Groundwork Physics Today 56N10 10-11 (2003). 467. [27], Wilczek became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000. Scaling Deviations for Neutrino Reactions in Asymptotically Free Field Theories (with S. Treiman and A. Zee) Phys. by. . Rev. B 10, 847, (1996). Lett. Scaling Mount Planck 2: Base Camp Physics Today 54N11 12-13 (2001). For more than two mutually space-like separated events that is not so, and a pretty geometry of possibilities emerges, as we explored in item 461. He was particularly inspired by two of his high school physics teachers, one of whom taught a course that helped students with the national Westinghouse Science Talent Search. 146. Calculations for Cosmic Axion Detection (with L. Krauss, J. Moody and D. Morris), Phys. Why are there Analogies between Condensed Matter and Particle Theory?, Physics Today, 11 (Jan. 1998). Bolometric Detection of Neutrinos (with B. Cabrera and L. Krauss), Phys. Frank Wilczek 23 D60 074012 (1999). Did the Big Bang Boil? Entanglement (Geometric) Entropy Item 194 defined the entanglement (originally geometric) entropy in quantum field theory, and computed for an interval in 1+1 dimensional conformal field theory. Frank Wilczek 1 Selected Publications of Frank Wilczek, with Brief Commentary, The full bibliography has grown by accretion. B287, 402 (1987). 33. 120. gr-qc/9406042 [94/46] 3169-3189. 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). Phys. They were provoked by the SuperK observation of neutrino mass, which greatly 109. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction". 71, S85-S95, (1999); More Things in Heaven and Earth A celebration of Physics at the Millennium, ed. 422. 1 No. 280. 434. [29] On January 25, 2013, Wilczek received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden. Lett. In Item 278 we discuss how some extremely simple, symmetric potentials can be shown both analytically and numerically to develop an exponential set of inequivalent local minima. 164. This is now known as the Dimopoulos-Wilczek mechanism. Popular and Semi-Popular Pieces 34, 52 (1975). High Density Quark Matter and the Renormalization Group in QCD with two and three flavors (with T. Scha efer), Phys. Holzhey), Nucl. Frank Wilczek: The subject of the Nobel Prize was figuring out one of the fundamental forces of nature theoretically. 211. Application of the Renormalization Group to a Second Order QCD Phase Transition, Int. Phys. Derzeit ist er Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Grndungsdirektor des TD Lee Institute und Chief Scientist am Wilczek Quantum Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Distinguished . QCD put the finishing touches on the standard model of particle physics, which describes the fundamental particles in nature and how they interact with one another. Abiding interests include: Professor Frank Wilczek is considered one of the worlds most eminent theoretical physicists. Frank Anthony Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is an American physicist and Nobel laureate (2004). Peter Freund played a big role in my life, though, because he taught this course on group theory, or symmetry in physics thathe was so enthusiastic, and he really gushedand it's beautiful material. Wilczek was also the co-recipient of the 2005 King Faisal International Prize for Science. cond-mat/9507040 [94/60] Frank Wilczek 5 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. 55, 1797 (1985). 100. Phys. In items 395 and 399 the analysis was successfully extended to charged and rotating black holes. Enhanced Baryon Number Violation Around Cosmic Strings (with M. Alford and J. March-Russell), Nucl. 142. 62, 1221 (1989). Geometry of Self Propulsion at Low Reynolds Number (with A. Shapere), Jour. [90/35] In 2011, Wilczek gave the George Gamow Memorial Lecture at the University of Colorado Boulder. N . The specific result in 194 logarithmic length dependence proportional to the central charge has become a touchstone within what has become a substantial and growing literature. The Condensed Matter Physics of QCD (with K. Rajagopal) Handbook of QCD ed. 89. Lett. 390. (with J. E. Moody), Phys. 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