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Frank Wilczek

1951 - Today

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Frank Anthony Wilczek ( or ; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate. He is 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 professor at Arizona State University (ASU) and full professor at Stockholm University. Wilczek, along with David Gross and H. David Politzer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Wilczek has received more than 692,680 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Wilczek is the 325th most popular physicist (up from 413th in 2019), the 1,933rd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,061st in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frank Wilczek ranks 325 out of 717. Before him are Daniel C. Tsui, Qian Xuesen, Christoph Scheiner, John Mauchly, Yakov Zeldovich, and James Jeans. After him are Bruno Pontecorvo, Gaston Planté, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Pascual Jordan, August Kundt, and Félix Savart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Frank Wilczek ranks 64. Before him are Olivia Hussey, Glenn Hughes, Roberto Durán, Sergei Skripal, Gustavo Santaolalla, and Christian Lacroix. After him are Jean-Claude Duvalier, Barry Marshall, Michèle Mouton, Ben Carson, Fatmir Sejdiu, and Joey Ramone.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Wilczek ranks 1,933 out of 18,182. Before him are Bruce McCandless II (1937), Jack Kevorkian (1928), Michael Bay (1965), Alex Jones (1974), Jack Daniel (1850), and Victor French (1934). After him are Gore Vidal (1925), Jason Momoa (1979), David Woodard (1964), Sydney Chaplin (1926), Dan Inosanto (1936), and Terry Riley (1935).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Frank Wilczek ranks 67. Before him are Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), John Robert Schrieffer (1931), Leon M. Lederman (1922), Steven Chu (1948), Nathan Rosen (1909), and John Mauchly (1907). After him are Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Walter A. Shewhart (1891), Edward Witten (1951), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), and Nick Holonyak (1928).

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