68, 2567 (1992). Frank Wilczek is Herman Feschbach Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2000-present). Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - The Information: https://theinformation.com/lex to get 75% off first month. Item 30 introduced the Higgs-gluon-gluon coupling, which plays a central role in the anticipated phenomenology of that particle. Inflationary Axion Cosmology (with M.S. 43, 1059 (1979). Frank Wilczek 9 Biography. In recent years, that battleground has come to appear a rutted landscape. 66, 3205 (1991) [91/18]. They were provoked by the SuperK observation of neutrino mass, which greatly 200. . It gives us an analytically tractable realization of confinement and chiral symmetry breaking in a regime of definite physical interest. 261. Higgs-field Portal into Hidden Sectors (with B. Patt) hep-ph/0605188 (2006). Callan, R.L. ngi c bit do mt phn l kt qu ca Frank Wilczek c thc hin mt bi kim tra IQ. Frank Wilczek: The subject of the Nobel Prize was figuring out one of the fundamental forces of nature theoretically. Frank has literary and inventive projects in the works. 104. 266. Frank Wilczek 7 309. 47, 986 (1981). Wilczek was also the co-recipient of the 2005 King Faisal International Prize for Science. Supersymmetric Phenomenology: Foundational Papers Application of the Renormalization Group to a Second Order QCD Phase Transition, Int. In the fall of 2000, he moved from the Institute for Advanced Study, where he was the J.R. Oppenheimer Professor, to the MIT Department of Physics, where he is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics. 75-104 in Vision of Discovery in honor of Charles Townes 90th Birthday ed. He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 2002. The discovery of this phenomenon, known as asymptotic freedom, led to a completely new physical theory, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), to describe the strong force. Cosmic Molasses for Particle Masses, New Scientist, (April 1999). We took our job very seriously and concluded, correctly, that no substantial danger was posed. QCD: High Density V32, 177 (1982). [91/32] He is a co-founding member of the Kosciuszko Foundation of the Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry. Omissions? 99. In this cluster of papers the possibility of fractional statistics for two-dimensional particles was introduced and extensively analyzed. He had decided to sit in on a class by physics . . 3. Symmetry Relations in Nucleon Decay (with Anya Hurlbert), Phys. Imaginary Chemical Potential and Finite Fermion Density on the Lattice (with M. Alford and A. Kapustin), Phys. 49. Also in this paper we provided the foundational analysis of branching modes. In 2004 I shared the physics Nobel Prize for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction. 6. And we proposed specific experimental tests of our ideas. B450, 325-331, (1999). Item 78 demonstrates the non-thermal production mechanism for axions during the Big Bang. Frank Wilczek. The 123 Sigma Rule The 123 Sigma Ruleis a set benchmarks. Applying this rule helps you set up your expectations for training. Reasonably Effective 2: Devils Advocate Physics Today 60N5 8-9 (2007). Sum Rules for Spin-Dependent Electroproduction - Test of Relativistic Constituent Quarks (with S. Wandzura), Phys. 412 Hard-Core Revelations Nature 445 156 (2007). A 13, 863, (1998); also in Magazine of Physics, Science & Ideas Vol. I discovered the possibility of fractional statstics for myself, and put it in the context of gauge theories, in the first three items listed below. B631 170-176 (2005). B378, 175 (1992). 406. 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. In Item 90 Zee and I showed how baby Skyrmions, appearing in models of magnets, could be quantized as anyons. On Absolute Units 2: Challenges and Responses Physics Today 59N1 10-11 (2005). Wilczek is a professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Rev. Gibbons, Hawking, Siklos (Cambridge University Press, 1983). Axions and Family Symmetry Breaking, Phys. (with J. E. Moody), Phys. Rev. Rev. In 1977, Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn postulated a solution to the strong CP problem, the PecceiQuinn mechanism. Clear rating. Scaling Mount Planck 2: Base Camp Physics Today 54N11 12-13 (2001). With our current understanding, we have four fundamental forces. Rev. Lett. Dr. Frank Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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After an injection of ideas from Laughlin, the analysis of many-body problems using statistical transmu- tation became quite sophisticated; this is reflected in the papers Items 142, 143, 154, and the book Item 155. J. Phys. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. 274. It is brief, but of very broad scope. M. Shifman 2016-2151 (World Scientific, 2001). Phys. In the early 1970s Wilczek and Gross used particle accelerators to study quarks and the force that acts on them. Item 296 was one of the first attempts to get serious about dynamics in such an environment. A7, 3911 (1992). 254. Turner), Phys. Lett. [ 17] Innehll 1 Referenser hep-ph/9702371 [97-11] (Aug. 2012). Fractional Statistics and Anyon Superconductivity, a monograph and reprint collection, World Scientific (September, 1990). Origins of Mass, hep-ph 1206.7114 CEJP D12-00144 (June 2012) [MIT-CTP 4379]. B404 (1993) 577. hep-ph/9303281 [93/16] A Chern-Simons Effective Field Theory for the Pfaffian Quantum Hall State (with E. Fradkin, C. Nayak, and A. Tsvelik), Nucl. Elementary Examples of Baryon Number Generation (with D. Toussaint), Phys. 168. Lifes Parameters Physics Today 56N2 10-11 (2003). He has received many prizes for his work, including a. in 2004. B251, [FS13], 917 (1985). At the University of Chicago, where Frank Wilczek was an undergraduate, regularly scheduled classes were "improvised and semivoluntary" amid the turmoil, as he recalls. Just beautiful. Rev. By Gabriel Popkin. Matter-Antimatter Accounting, Thermodynamics, and Black Hole Radiation (with D. Toussaint, S. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. Wilczek won the Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society in 2003. The jury is still out. D19, 1036 (1979). Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. Abstract. Rev. 296. Mass Without Mass II: The Medium is the Mass-age Physics Today 53N1 13-14 (2000). The Universe is a Strange Place Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energies, Interna- tional Symposium XXII 447-461 (2005). 86 3492-3495 (2001). Rev. He received his BS from the University of Chicago, his MA and PhD from Princeton University. B349, 414 (1991). Lett. Scaling Deviations for Neutrino Reactions in Asymptotically Free Field Theories (with S. Treiman and A. Zee) Phys. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frank-Wilczek, The Nobel Foundation - Autobiography of Frank Wilczek. Want to Read. 352. Emergence of Coherent Long Wavelength Oscillations After a Quench: Application to QCD, (with K. Rajagopal), Nucl. Rev. 264. 4. Kings- ley, S.B. This [asymptotic freedom] is a phenomenon whereby the building blocks which make up the nucleus of an atom 'quarks' behave as free particles when they are close together, but become more strongly attracted to each other as the distance between them increases. Learn about Frank's research and affiliations. Items 120, 123, 124, and 128 demonstrate the use of gauge theory concepts to describe two problems in the mechanics of deformable bodies: self-orientation (say of divers or falling cats) at zero angular momentum, and self-propulsion (say of bacteria) at low Reynolds number. 39, 1304 (1977). 73, (1994) 2740. cond-mat/9405017 [94/25] Lett. With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. [17], Wilczek said that "the world embodies beautiful ideas" but "although this may inspire a spiritual interpretation, it does not require one". Hadron Systematics and Emergent Diquarks (with A. Selem) Ringberg 2005 ed. B340, 366 (1990). Lett. B337, 695 (1990). 130. Analysis and Synthesis 4: Limits and Supplements Physics Today 57N1 10=11 (2004). 419. Frank Wilczek 5 Cross-Confinement in Multi-Chern-Simons Theories (with Lorenzo Cornalba), Phys. Lett. His current theoretical research includes work on Axions, Anyons, and Time Crystals. 89. Lett. 52, 1524 (1984). Frank Wilczek Mistake, Profound, Progress Frank Wilczek (2009). This might qualitatively explain the small nuclear (compared to QCD) mass scale; it requires chiral symmetry restoration which could explain the long-standing observation $g_A \rightarrow 1$ in nuclear matter. Rev. of Mod. He has also worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and was also a visiting professor at NORDITA. Lett. The enigmatic electron (2013) Nature 498 31[MIT-CTP 4466] Item 353 is a high-level discussion of Rev. [6] Wilczek's father became a "self-taught engineer", whose interests in technology and science inspired his son. Selected Publications Lett. Effect of Self-Interaction on Charged Black Hole Radiance (P. Kraus), Nucl. If axions exist and have low mass within a specific range, they are of interest as a possible component of cold dark matter. Rev. 312. At larger distances a more phenomenological approach is called for. Rev. Non-Uniqueness of Gauge Field Potentials (with S. Deser), Phys. 353. Inflation opened up an alternative scenario for axion cosmology, with a potential signature in the form of isocurvature fluctuations. 24 The Universe According to Frank Wilczek WATCH: Celebrating Dr. Frank Wilczek Dr. Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author, whose boundary-pushing investigations into the fundamental laws of nature have transformed our understanding of the forces that govern our universe. Professor Wilczek received his B.S. When that symmetry is spontaneously broken, a new particle results, as shown independently by Wilczek and by Steven Weinberg. States of Anyon Matter, Intl. Rev. 115. [22] Wilczek has appeared on an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, where Penn referred to him as "the smartest person [they have] ever had on the show." Honors 326. Rev. 36. 2) 12-25, (Dec. 1996). 285. 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 A Piece of Magic: The Dirac Equation It Must be Beautiful ed. D. 78 083507. astro-ph/0807.1726 [MIT-CTP3950] (2008). He was raised Catholic. 97. 453. Paired Hall States in Double Layer Electron Systems (with M. Greiter and X.G.Wen), Phys. Frank Wilczek, phone ++468164997, email frank.wilczek@fysik.su.se. After graduating from the University of Chicago (B.S., 1970), Wilczek studied under Gross at Princeton University, earning an M.S. It still appears as if this symmetry, or some closely related variant, is also necessary. B4, 1063 (1990). Item 25 contains, I believe, the first discussion of kinetic neutrino mixing, and shows how it can arise in simple gauge theory models. 110, 118902 (2013) See Also . Mod. In this state, whose analysis was also pioneered by Moore and Read, traditional statistical transmutation and BCS pairing are present simultaneously. Mod. Frank Wilczek 1 Selected Publications of Frank Wilczek, with Brief Commentary, The full bibliography has grown by accretion. Frank Wilczek, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, author and Arizona State University Distinguished Professor, whose boundary-pushing investigations into the fundamental laws of nature have transformed our understanding of the forces that govern our universe, was announced today as the winner of the 2022 Templeton Prize . 305. 109. The Origin of Mass Physics@MIT 24-35 (2003). Finally item 412 is an appreciative comment on the return of QCD to its historic roots in the challenges of nuclear physics. To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, we should have humility but also self-respect, the physicist writes in a new book. Phys. 93. Contents. Princeton University(M.A., Ph.D.) Known for Asymptotic freedom Quantum chromodynamics Particle statistics Axionmodel Spouse Betsy Devine Children Amity and Mira[1] Awards MacArthur Fellowship(1982) Rev. BCS as Foundation and Inspiration: The Transmutation of Symmetry, Mod. 80. 65, 13 (1990). My Wizard, Reference Frame Column, Physics Today 61 N1[MIT-CTP 3866] (2008). Jour. 299. 166. Item 204 spelled out some subtleties that arise for fermion fields, and gave a vastly simplified derivation for free massless fields. Lett. Instantons and Spin Forces Between Massive Quarks (with A. Zee), Phys. 369. Item 330 goes to the conceptual roots of the fractionalization phenomenon. Geometric Phases in Physics (a text and reprint volume, edited with A. Shapere) (World Scientific, 1989). 100. Phys. Rev. I accepted with pleasure, worked hard on them, and am proud of the results. Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founding director of the T. D. Lee Institute and chief scientist at the Wilczek Quantum Center in Shanghai, China, and a distinguished professor at Arizona State University and Stockholm University. Rev. Hes helped reveal and develop axions, anyons, asymptotic freedom, the color superconducting phases of quark matter and other aspects of quantum field theory. Item 100 started the whole subject. In the same year he was awarded the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Commemorative Medal from Charles University in Prague. B333, (1994) 55-61. hepth/ 9401072 [93/87] Rev. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. New Macroscopic Forces? Wilczek's 2004 Nobel Prize was for asymptotic freedom, but he has helped reveal and develop axions, anyons, asymptotic freedom, the color superconducting phases of quark matter, and other aspects of quantum field theory. The internet is an amazing source of information (and misinformation) about almost any topic. Item 95 anticipates the concept of domain wall fermions, which has since become quite popular in high energy theory, in a concrete condensed matter context. Continuity of Quark and Hadron Matter, (with T. Scha efer), Phys. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. And youre glue Nature 400, 21-23. 214. B 455, 493, (1995). Dimensionless Constants, Cosmology and Other Dark Matters (with M. Tegmark, A. Aguirre, and M. Rees) Phys. Aharonov-Bohm Interaction of Cosmic Strings with Matter (with M. G. Alford), Phys. Wilczek, considered one of the world's most eminent theoretical physicists, is the Herman Feshbach professor of physics at MIT. 120. point of view. In Item 57 we generalized the halving of quantum numbers discovered abstractly by Jackiw and Rebbi, and in the context of polyacetylene by Su, Schrieffer, and Heeger, to a much wider class of field theories, featuring other fractions. One co-author (Wen) went on to generalize this idea under the rubric topological order, which has grow into a cottage industry. Phys. Mass Splittings from Symmetry Obstruction (with L. Cornalba), Phys. 1012 Degrees in the Shade (preprinted as Hot Stuff: The High Temperature Frontier), The Sciences, January/February 1994, 22. 244. 373a Photograph ibid, 96 373b Biography ibid, 97-99, In the first three papers listed below, Gross and I did several things. Items 153, The deepest of these consequences result from the infinite number of degrees of freedom invoked to implement locality. Hes worked on an unusually wide variety of topics, ranging across condensed matter physics, astrophysics and particle physics. [28] He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 2002. ed. A. Zichichi (Plenum, New York, 1983). Spin Dependent Hubbard Model and a Quantum Phase Transition in Cold Atoms (with W. V. Liu and P. Zoller) Phys. 43, 1571 (1979). ), 367, (1998). B81, 238 (1979). 135. Items 106 and 109 present ideas for neutrino and dark matter detection, that have influenced experimental work. Operator Analysis of Nucleon Decay (with A. Zee), Phys. Jour. Professor Wilczek has been a Sloan Foundation Fellow (1975-77) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (1982-87). Self-Dual Models with Terms (with A. Shapere), Nucl. Solar Neutrino Oscillations (with L. Krauss), Phys. 69, 132 (1992). 280. The Interactions and Excitations of Nonabelian Vortices (with M. Alford, K. Benson, S. Coleman and J. March-Russell), Phys. Babu and J. Pati), Nuclear Physics B 566 33-91 (2000) hep-ph/9812538 [98-80]. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). It is not entirely obvious how to quantize such Hamiltonians, but a consistent, well-motivated procedure is proposed in item 457. 388. Research Areas High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory (617) 253-0284 wilczek@mit.edu Office: 6-301 Lett. The Universe is a Strange Place Nucl. He received the Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society for these activities. Items 146, 166, and 168 demonstrate the existence of quantum hair observables of stationary black holes that are invisible classically, and violate the classical no hair theorems. B 479, 529, (1996). 18. 204. 310. 48, 1437 (1982). 38 (2010) pp. 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. Lett. 56, 893 (1986). Frank Wilczek 1 Selected Publications of Frank Wilczek, with Brief Commentary The full bibliography has grown by accretion. Cole (December 1984) 1.2 Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics (1987) Lett. Discrete Quantum Hair on Black Holes and the Nonabelian Aharanov-Bohm Effect, (with M. Alford and J. March-Russell), Nucl. [3], 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". Phys. Phys. 25, No. Film from Frank Wilczek's Installation colloquium, November 24. 173. Standard Model Phenomenology The method used, tracing the flow of quantum numbers as one turns on some external field or control parameter, has been fruitfully applied to many other problems since. He played a central part in formulating and establishing theoretical physics' two standard models the standard model of fundamental interactions and the standard model of cosmology. He is the prize-winning author of numerous books, including A Beautiful Question and Longing for the Harmonies.Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT; founding director of the T. D. Lee Institute and chief scientist of the Wilczek Quantum Center in Shanghai; and a distinguished professor at Arizona State and . B449, 24-29, (1999). QCD: High Temperature Item 91 is foundational. Williams (TASI Publications, Ann Arbor, MI, 1984). It was an honor to be asked to write item 444, for the major book celebrating 50 years of BCS theory. (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. Scaling Mount Planck 3: Is That All There Is? 298 QCD Made Simple Physics Today, 53N8 22-28 (2000). J. C33 S38-S42 (2004). Rev. 176. A663-4 257c-271c (2000). B70, 418 (1977). B 9, 3189, (1995). Items 115 and 423 are full-scale popular books, that have reached large audiences. gr-qc/9807031 [98-57] We point out additional contributions to proton decay amplitudes which arise more-or-less directly from the interactions that generate neutrino mass, and try to provide serious quantitative estimates of the expected rates. hep-th/9112054 [91/92] It demonstrates an unusual mechanism whereby symmetry can be hidden. Read more Product details The following version is less complete, but better organized. 362. Space-Time Aspects of Quasiparticle Propagation (with R. Levien and C. Nayak) Int. Holzhey), Nucl. 171, and 218 are applications of the general philosophy mentioned in the previous Section to the quantum Hall effect context. Disassembling Anyons, Phys. Wilczek grew up in New York City and attended public school in Queens, graduating from high school in two years. translation symmetry might be spontaneously broken, in classical and quantum theory respectively. Rev. 286. Review of Speculative Disaster Scenarios at RHIC (with W. Busza, R. Jaffe, and J. Sandweiss) Rev. Supersymmetry and the Scale of Unification (with S. Dimopoulos and S. Raby), Phys. Frank Wilczek 13 Phys. J. Cronin (U. of Chicago Press 2004). Jour. Phys. Rev. 151. According to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences when awarding Wilczek its Lorentz Medal in 2002,[34]. Whence the Force of F=ma? ng c nui dy theo o Thin Cha gio. 56. Rev. He taught at Princeton from 197481. Frank Wilczek 29 461. (See also the following group of papers.) 344. 460. Appearance of Gauge Structures in Simple Dynamical Systems (with A. Zee), Phys. condmat/ 9605145 [96/52] 88. Phys. B. Bederson, (Springer-Verlag, New York), (1999). Analysis and Synthesis 1: What Matters for Matter Physics Today 56N5 10-11 (2003). [1] His grandparents were immigrants, who "really did work with their hands", according to Wilczek, but Frank's father took night school classes to educate himself, working as a repairman to support his family. Calculations for Cosmic Axion Detection (with L. Krauss, J. Moody and D. Morris), Phys. [9][10], He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and membership in Phi Beta Kappa[11] at the University of Chicago in 1970. Lett. 371. Dual Dilaton Dyons (with A. Shapere and S. Trivedi), Mod. Why is there something rather than nothing? D25, 553 (1982). hep-ph/9711395 [97/119] 270. Wilczek will work on a variety of important issues in theoretical physics. To preserve sanity, the numbering of items is the same as in the complete bibliogra- phy. Two of his pieces have been anthologized in Best American Science Writing (2003, 2005). J. Mod. Lett. 141. B363, 207 (1991). Tippett: Frank Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for his discoveries about quarks that helped illuminate our understanding of the 4 fundamental forces of nature in the Standard Model of physics though Frank Wilczek more poetically calls the Standard Model the Core Theory. These are three papers that dont fit naturally anywhere else. 55. Rev. Phys. 459. 153. Miscellaneous . Turner), Phys. In item 354 I emphasized, I believe for the first time, the special sensitivity of the Higgs field, with its dimensional coupling, as a probe of hidden-sector dynamics. Item 68, an early review, was among the first to discuss QCD as an established theory. Anomalies, Hawking Radiation and Regularity in Rotating Black Holes (with S. Iso and H. Umetsu) Phys. Rev. 98. B112, 133 (1982). An Explorer and Surveyor [on Hermann Weyl] Nature 437 1095 (2005). hep-th/9801184 [97-142] In Item 66 we introduced a discrete matter symmetry sufficient to banish catastrophic proton decay in supersymmetric models. "Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. hep-th/9408089 [94/51] He is a co-founding member of the Kosciuszko Foundation of the Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry.[23]. He was presented by Professor Sune Svanberg, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics. It was around this time Wilczek's parents realized that he was exceptional - in part as a result of Frank Wilczek having been administered an IQ test. 161 Relic Gravitational Waves and Extended Inflation (with M.S. Selected Publications Axions, Including Axion Cosmology 64, 1632 (1990). Finally Item 172 is an attempt to portray the big picture, for a wide physics audience. 58, 1799 (1987). Item 45 was an early model for how to use effective field theory ideas to analyze possible deviations from the Standard Model in a systematic way. In particular, anyons can have properties intermediate between fermions and bosons, including fractional electric charge. Rev. 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. Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times By Claudia Dreifus. 65B, 391 (1976). This is accomplished by adding a new global symmetry (called a PecceiQuinn symmetry.) (Wiley-Interscience, NY, 1977), pp. B 10, 2125, (1996). Here I will only mention a few highlights. 324. . Fluid Mech. 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. In the store he noticed a brand of laundry detergent called "Axion." Countless people had probably seen and used the product, but the precocious Wilczek was almost certainly the first to think it might offer a good name for an elementary particle. 82 3956-3959 (1999). Compactification of the Twisted Heterotic String (with V. Nair, A. Shapere and A. Strominger), Nucl. 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. Two Applications of Axion Electrodynamics, Phys. B 450, 558, (1995). Baker, 1986. Statistical Transmutation, Anyons, and Chern-Simons Theory The two scientistsand Politzer working independentlyobserved that quarks were so tightly bound together that they could not be separated as individual particles but that the closer quarks approached one another, the weaker the strong force became. 393. Branched Quantization (with A. Shapere) (June 2012), quant-ph 1207.2677 [MIT-CTP 4381]. Non-Fermi Liquid Fixed Point in 2+1 Dimensions, (with Chetan Nayak), Nucl. In special relativity two space-like separated events will appear, to different inertial observers, to occur in either time order. Lett. 66, 5 (1991). Particle-Antiparticle Annihilation in Diffuse Motion (with D. Toussaint), Jour. The Persistence of Ether, Physics Today, 52, 11-13, (January 1999). Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. 307. Nature 443 636 (2006). Contributions to fundamental particle Physics, cosmology and Other dark Matters ( with L. Cornalba,. X27 ; s Installation colloquium, November 24 large audiences appears as if this symmetry or! 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