Frank Wilczek (1951- )

Awarded the Prize “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.”

Frank Wilczek is an American Theoretical Physicist who was born in Mineola, New York, USA on 15 May 1951. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1970, a Master of Arts in Mathematics at Princeton University, 1972, a Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University in 1974. He is now a Professor in MIT.