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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) during February and March 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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Wilczek is the 356th most popular physicist (down from 336th in 2019), the 2,195th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,777th in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Physicist. Learn more about Frank Wilczek's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frank Wilczek ranks 356 out of 851. Before him are Ami Argand, Auguste Bravais, Louis Poinsot, Hans Kramers, Jean-Charles de Borda, and Pascual Jordan. After him are Franz Aepinus, Nathan Rosen, E. C. George Sudarshan, William Whewell, Heinrich Geißler, and Henri Pitot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Frank Wilczek ranks 92. Before him are Gustavo Santaolalla, Kazumi Takada, Javier Marías, Sydne Rome, Shigemi Ishii, and Dana Rosemary Scallon. After him are Kate Atkinson, Joe Lynn Turner, Roger Myerson, Horst Hrubesch, Šaban Šaulić, and Bob Geldof.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Wilczek ranks 2,195 out of 20,380. Before him are Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911), Barrington Moore Jr. (1913), Blase J. Cupich (1949), Henry Ford II (1917), Ving Rhames (1959), and Theda Bara (1885). After him are William Wyatt Bibb (1781), Jerry Reed (1937), Alexander Haig (1924), Fredric Jameson (1934), Michael Massee (1952), and Henry Steel Olcott (1832).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Frank Wilczek ranks 76. Before him are John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Steven Chu (1948), Carl Wieman (1951), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), John G. Trump (1907), and Theodore Lyman IV (1874). After him are Nathan Rosen (1909), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Edward Witten (1951), Walter A. Shewhart (1891), Nick Holonyak (1928), and Edwin Hall (1855).

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