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Frank Wilczek: 50 Years Of Theoretical Physics (Hardcover)
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Frank Wilczek: 50 Years Of Theoretical Physics (Hardcover)
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Frank Wilczek is one of the foremost theoretical physicists of the
past half-century. He has made several fundamental contributions
that shape our understanding of high energy physics, cosmology,
condensed matter physics, and statistical physics. In all these
fields his many discoveries continue to play a key role in shaping
the direction of modern theoretical physics.Among Wilczek's major
achievements is the discovery of asymptotic freedom, which predicts
and explains the ultraviolet behavior of non-abelian gauge
theories. The axion, which he co-discovered and named, has emerged
as the prevalent candidate for explaining the origin of dark matter
in the Universe. His invention of color-flavor locking explains
chiral symmetry breaking in high density quantum chromodynamics.
His introduction of fractional statistics and anyons are pivotal to
our understanding of the fractional quantum Hall effect and form
the building blocks of topological quantum computing. His invention
of the time crystal concept has catalyzed extensive investigations
of dynamical phases of physical systems.Frank Wilczek received the
2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of asymptotic
freedom. He is also the recipient of several Prizes and honorary
awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Lorentz Medal of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Lilienfeld
Prize of the American Physical Society, the High Energy and
Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society, and the
King Faisal International Prize for Science of the King Faisal
Foundation. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American
Philosophical Society. He is also a foreign member of the Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Royal Academy
of Sciences in Sweden.He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor
of Physics at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. He also holds a
professorship at Stockholm University, is a Distinguished Professor
at Arizona State University, and is the founding director of the
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute and Chief Scientist of the Wilczek Quantum
Center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.This volume serves as a
tribute to Frank Wilczek's legendary scientific contributions,
commemorating his 70th birthday and the first 50 years of his
career as a theoretical physicist. The contributors include several
of his PhD students, close collaborators, and both past and present
colleagues.
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