His current theoretical research includes work on Axions, Anyons, and Time Crystals. 66. Lett. Phys.B Proc. In some cases, an amendment to the Heisenberg commutation relations is required. Lett. Frank Wilczek 19 32. When Words Fail Nature 410 149 (2001). 469. Phys. 48, 1437 (1982). Rev. Kingsley, S.B. [91/11] Other Beyond the Standard Model Phenomenology Item 31 was a pioneering attempt to interpret regularities of quark mass matrices in terms of symmetry; item 269 is a later, more comprehensive foray. 129. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), full Professor at Stockholm University, as well as a Distinguished Origin Alchetron Sign in Sneha Girap (Editor) 342. 254. Non-Uniqueness of Gauge Field Potentials (with S. Deser), Phys. 326. In 2004 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, and in 2005 the King Faisal Prize. 99. Lett. 109. 363. J. Mod. 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. "Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. Item 346 explores thermal, as opposed to quantum, transitions between vacua or black-hole states. 25, No. When Frank Wilczek was a teenager in New York in the 1960s, he sometimes went shopping with his mother. 393. Lett. Peter Freund played a big role in my life, though, because he taught this course on group theory, or symmetry in physics thathe was so enthusiastic, and he really gushedand it's beautiful material. 423. Implicitly, and in part explicitly, they present my vision of physics. cond-mat/9602112 [95/111] Appearance of Gauge Structures in Simple Dynamical Systems (with A. Zee), Phys. J. Cronin (U. of Chicago Press 2004). 19. [44], Frank Wilczek, Dan Arovas, and Robert Schrieffer analyzed the fractional quantum Hall effect in 1984, proving that anyons were required to describe it. 116. Rev. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. Lett B 375, 37, 1996. hepth/ 9511064 [95/92] So let me answer each of them separately. [42], In 1977, a group of theoretical physicists working at the University of Oslo, led by Jon Leinaas and Jan Myrheim, calculated that the traditional division between fermions and bosons would not apply to theoretical particles existing in two dimensions. Frank Wilczek: I think the question can be understood in two different ways. 305. When quarks were brought very close together, the force was so weak that the quarks acted almost as if they were free particles not bound together by any force. Contents. Frank Wilczek 13 I have long been interested in communicating results from the frontiers of physics to the scientific (and, ideally, the general) public. Discrete Gauge Symmetry in Continuum Theories (with L.M. hep-th/9703131 [97/22] 8 Selected Publications 424. Wen), Phys. Ultraviolet Behavior of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories (with D. Gross), Phys. Rev. Possible Electronic Structure of Domain Walls in Mott Insulators (with C. Nayak), Int. [20], In 2014, Wilczek penned a letter, along with Stephen Hawking and two other scholars, warning that "Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Williams (TASI Publications, Ann Arbor, MI, 1984). It was during this turbulent time that Wilczek found unexpected comfort, and a new understanding of the world, in mathematics. In preparing the biography, I reflected on my great good fortune in having supportive people and institutions. In the early 1970s Wilczek and Gross used particle accelerators to study quarks and the force that acts on them. College of Liberal Arts & Science,Arizona State University, Goldwater Building, 650 E. Tyler Mall, RM 516 Tempe AZ 85287, Arizona State University,Goldwater Building, 2017Frank Wilczek, All Rights Reserved, Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. A Physicist Tries to Answer", "My Wikipedia entry says "agnostic", but "pantheist" is closer to the mark. Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times By Claudia Dreifus. B417, (1994) 359. cond-mat/9312086 [93/89] 40, 83 (1977). It still appears as if this symmetry, or some closely related variant, is also necessary. . 220. 248. 132. [43] When Daniel Tsui and Horst Strmer discovered the fractional quantum Hall effect in 1982, Bertrand Halperin (1984) expanded the math Wilczek proposed in 1982 for fractional statistics in two dimensions to help explain it. In recent years I have been asked to do this on a regular basis for both Nature and Physics Today. 151. Lett. Item 263 proposes another sort of unusual quantum statistics, based on projective representations of the symmetric group, that can work in any dimension. Frank Wilczek was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. condmat/ 9605145 [96/52] Lett. Item 261 is foundational. Rev. Nuclear and Subnuclear Boiling, Nature 395, 220-221 (17 September 1998). They have been both developed and rediscovered in subsequent literature. Interest in entanglement entropy has swelled over the years, due to its connections with quantum information theory, the characterization of quantum critical points, and (through holography) to quantum gravity. 93. He taught at Princeton from 197481. Gibbons, Hawking, Siklos (Cambridge University Press, 1983). 82. The Chern- Simons construction of statistical transmutation is implicit in that paper, made more explicit (and used!) Frank Wilczek [5.18.21] It came to me, viscerally, that the intricate calculations I'd done using pen and paper (and wastebasket) might somehow describe this entirely different realm of existencenamely, a physical world of particles, tracks, and electronic signals, created by the kind of machinery I was looking at. 12 Selected Publications 37. Lett. Rev. Item 353 is a high-level discussion of 124. Rev. Superconductivity from Perturbative One-Gluon Exchange in High Density Quark Mat- ter (with T. Scha efer) Phys. Solicited article for Universe or Multiverse ed. 455. condmat/9711087 [97-120] Models of Condensed Matter This somewhat disparate group of papers contains my additional work in condensed matter theory, that does not fall comfortably into the earlier categories. 286. Review of Speculative Disaster Scenarios at RHIC (with W. Busza, R. Jaffe, and J. Sandweiss) Rev. In Item 169 we studied black holes in super- gravity, and demonstrated their dual spectrum. A663-4, 3c-20c (2000). 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Futures- Six public lectures by Nobel and Templeton Laureate Frank Wilczek, Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek on paradox, beauty and truth. On Magic Moments Seed Nov. 2006 39. Turner), Phys. Cross-Confinement in Multi-Chern-Simons Theories (with Lorenzo Cornalba), Phys. It is not entirely obvious how to quantize such Hamiltonians, but a consistent, well-motivated procedure is proposed in item 457. 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. Geometric and Renormalized Entropy in Conformal Field Theory, (with C. Holzhey and F. Larsen), Nucl. Phys. 88. 26 [13] They married in 1973, and together they have two daughters. Items 36 and 37 contain especially original uses of QCD. 16 Selected Publications In 2011, Wilczek gave the George Gamow Memorial Lecture at the University of Colorado Boulder. Item 94 also contains a calculation of the virial coefficient for the ideal anyon gas; this was perhaps the first physical con- sequence of anyon statistics to be cleanly identified. 279. Lett. FRANK WILCZEK is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics, and author of A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design . In the same year he was awarded the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Commemorative Medal from Charles University in Prague. 30. Rev. 193. B39, 11413 (1989). [6] Wilczek's father became a "self-taught engineer", whose interests in technology and science inspired his son. Rev. Item 40 is a clean discussion of the minimal requirements. 457. 92. 2. Peculiar Spin and Statistics in 2+1 Dimensions (with R. MacKenzie), Int. Rev. Frank Wilczekis world-renowned both as a theoretical physicist and as a writer and speaker on science. hep-th/9610252 [96-108] B450, 325-331, (1999). D16, 152 (1977). That portal idea, elaborated in item 401, has become quite influential. The Worlds Numerical Recipe Daedalus 131-1 142-147 (2001). It was an honor to be asked to write item 444, for the major book celebrating 50 years of BCS theory. Rev. 49, 1549 (1982). 419. In item 285 we give some substance to the old heuristic idea that Hawking radiation can be regarded as spontaneous pair creation by a gravitational field. D30, 2260 (1984). 177. 399. Born in Mineola, New York, of Polish and Italian origin, Wilczek was educated in the public schools of Queens, attending Martin Van Buren High School.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. A. Zichichi (Plenum, 1985). Entanglement (Geometric) Entropy Item 194 defined the entanglement (originally geometric) entropy in quantum field theory, and computed for an interval in 1+1 dimensional conformal field theory. 453. Callan, R.L. Grind- hammer, Kniehl, Kramer, and Ochs 337-356 (2006). These are three papers that dont fit naturally anywhere else. The Universe is a Strange Place Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energies, Interna- tional Symposium XXII 447-461 (2005). B. Carr (Cambridge Univer- sity Press), based in part on talk given at the Anthropic Workskop, Jun 2001 (2004) hep- ph/0408167 [MIT-CTP-3526]. This is a cluster of papers wherein the methods of superconductivity theory are applied to QCD at high density. 210. 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. What to Do If You Are Hurt on the Job Workers' Comp Forms for School Security Supervisors 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) 332 QCD and Natural Philosophy Annales Henri Poincare 4 S211-S228 (2003). 171. Lett. 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. In Item 236 Larsen and I made a first attempt to apply the improved understanding of string black holes to cosmology. Saltatory Relaxation of the Cosmological Term in String Theory (with J. Feng, J. March-Russell, and S. Sethi) Nucl. Lett. When only 21 years old and a graduate student at Princeton University, in work with David Gross he defined the properties of color gluons, which hold atomic nuclei together. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Decay of Heavy Vector Mesons into Higgs Particles, Phys. Hawking Radiation as Tunneling (with M. Parikh) Phys. 299. 277. 166. Rev. 366. Quarks, Diquarks, and Pentaquarks (with R. Jaffe) Physics World 17 25-30 (2004). Phys. 340. 78, 2642 (1983). Asymptotic Freedom, Lecture on receipt of the Dirac Medal, October 1994, published by ICTP, Trieste, Italy. The Universe is a Strange Place Nucl. Space-Time Aspects of Quasiparticle Propagation (with R. Levien and C. Nayak) Int. hep-ph/9804403 [98-29] 317. 107. Phys. Remarks on the Chiral Phase Transition in Chromodynamics (with R. Pisarski), Phys. 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. Lett. I liked the title so much that I took it over for a more popular talk (item 390) which, in evolved forms, Ive given in dozens of places around the world over several years. Phys. A6, 2353 (1991). B112, 133 (1982). 6 Lett. 88 161102 (2001). Welcome to your new Drupal site! It demonstrates an unusual mechanism whereby symmetry can be hidden. 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 . Illustrations of Vacuum Polarization by Solitons (with R. MacKenzie), Phys. Items 153, Rev. [49] In 2018 he and Qing-Dong Jiang calculated that the so-called "quantum atmosphere" of materials should theoretically be capable of being probed using existing technology such as diamond probes with nitrogen-vacancy centers. Lett. A. Zichichi (Plenum, New York, 1983). 460. B287, 402 (1987). The specific result in 194 logarithmic length dependence proportional to the central charge has become a touchstone within what has become a substantial and growing literature. 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. 161 Relic Gravitational Waves and Extended Inflation (with M.S. Adiabatic Methods in Field Theory, in TASI Lectures in Elementary Particle Physics, ed. With poetry and fervor, Wilczek takes us on a breathtaking journey to the frontiers of physics, and reminds us of just how privileged we human beings are to glimpse the foundations of reality." Paul Davies, Regents' Professor at Arizona State University and author of The Demon in the Machine " Fundamentals reflects Frank Wilczek's . 58. Fluid Mech. cond-mat/9507016 [95/59] Lett. Babu and J. Pati), Phys. As the 2022 Templeton Prize laureate, Dr. Wilczek will participate in several virtual and in-person events, including a 2022 Templeton Prize event in the fall, where he will deliver a Templeton . QCD - The Modern Theory of Strong Interactions, Ann. Mod. PHYSICIST Frank A. Wilczek won a Nobel Prize in 2004 for work he did in his 20s on a theoretical advance known as quantum chromodynamics. Longing for the Harmonies [a book] W.W. Norton (January, 1988). Item 196 exemplified use of the replica trick, which remains a basic technique. Rev. About Frank. 159. Phys. On Absolute Units 1: Choices Physics Today 58N10 12-13 (2005). 82 3956-3959 (1999). [48] In 2018, several research teams reported the existence of time crystals. 131. [2]He is currently the Herman Feshbach . 324. Fundamental Constants, pp. Solar System Constraints and Signatures for Dark Matter Candidates (with L. Krauss and M. Srednicki), Phys. B 411, 112-116, (1997). Rev. Interference Effects in Charmed Meson Decays (with S. Treiman), Phys. Origins of Mass, hep-ph 1206.7114 CEJP D12-00144 (June 2012) [MIT-CTP 4379]. [7], Wilczek was educated in the public schools of Queens, attending Martin Van Buren High School. Abstract. 259. Lett. 266. 128. Anyons, Scientific American 264, #5, p. 58 (May, 1991). Enlightenment, Knowledge, Ignorance, Temptation, hep-ph/0512187 Summary talk given at Conference on Expectations of a Final Theory, Cambridge, England, in Universe or Multi- verse? The statistics of these objects, like their spin, interpolates continuously between the usual boson and fermion cases. 1.1 "The Quirk of the Quark", article in Esquire by K.C. In 1989 Wilczek became a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, a post he held until 2000, when he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Phys. Rev. . 244. 94. (See fundamental interaction.) Rev. Frank Wilczek 3 [35][36] Wilczek named this new hypothetical particle the "axion" after a brand of laundry detergent,[37] while Weinberg called it "Higglet". Neutrino Deficit Challenges Conservation Laws, Nature 391, 123 (8 Jan. 1998). hep-lat/9807039 [98-67] It's not just the show-stopping, full-arc-across . Analysis and Synthesis 2: Universal Characteristics Physics Today 56N7 10-11 (2003). Item 26 presented an ansatz for instanton solutions, which in a generalized form became quite influential. 86 3492-3495 (2001). Frank Wilczek is Herman Feschbach Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2000-present). Frank Wilczek, the 2004 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2017. 122. [91/34] Item 459 is a review and deep meditation on the mass concept in modern physics. Paired Hall States (with M. Greiter and X.G. Phys. [8], After skipping two grades, Wilczek started high school in the 10th grade, when he was 13 years old. Baryogenesis These papers present pioneering discussions of how the phenomenon of baryon number viola- tion, natural within unified gauge models, can lead and initially symmetric Universe to evolve an asymmetry between matter and antimatter, as observed. 65. Lett. O. Sacks 96-101 (Harper-Collins 2003). 95 011303 (2005). A line element that is regular through the horizon and particular well adapted to such calculations, and has other features of interest, was introduced in Item 202 (the mathematics, though not the quantum physics, of this line element has a prehistory). Krauss), Phys. 109 (2012) 160402 (February 2012) [MIT-CTP 4347]. D60 1140331-1140337 (1999). Rev. 352. 62, 1071 (1989). Asymptotically Free Gauge Theories, II (with D. Gross), Phys. Limitations on the Statistical Description of Black Holes (with P. Schwarz, A. Shapere and S. Trivedi), Mod. My Mystical Moment. Ive classified and annotated the items listed in this subsection in a separate file. 362. 288. Supersymmetry and the Scale of Unification (with S. Dimopoulos and S. Raby), Phys. An Explorer and Surveyor [on Hermann Weyl] Nature 437 1095 (2005). For more information on how to customize the content, look, and feel of your site please see the help section at the Drupal Cloud Website. 66, 5 (1991). A 23 1791-1811, The European Physical Journal C, 59 N2 185, hep-ph/07084236 (2007) [MIT-CTP 3858]. Phys. D60 074012 (1999). 450. My Wizard, Reference Frame Column, Physics Today 61 N1[MIT-CTP 3866] (2008). 241. Aharonov-Bohm Interaction of Cosmic Strings with Matter (with M. G. Alford), Phys. 106. 67, 1975 (1991). . Asymptotically Free Gauge Theories, I (with D. Gross), Phys. 356. Popular and Semi-Popular Pieces 244. (with J. E. Moody), Phys. He has worked on condensed matter physics, astrophysics, and particle physics. Selected Publications [45][47], In 2012 he proposed the idea of a time crystal. 204. Heuristic Principle for Quantized Hall States (with M. Greiter), Mod. D25, 553 (1982). - See more. 310. Panning for Gold at the K Stream, Nature 389, 671 (16 Oct. 1997). High Density Quark Matter and the Renormalization Group in QCD with two and three flavors (with T. Scha efer), Phys. Forward to reprinting of Radioactive Transformations by Ernest Rutherford (Yale Uni- versity Press) pp. How Frank Wilczek made a discovery to rival Einstein, and won the Nobel Prize. 2) 12-25, (Dec. 1996). On Absolute Units 2: Challenges and Responses Physics Today 59N1 10-11 (2005). Biography. 276. 10 Selected Publications 43, 816 (1979). [92/1], 1: Culture Shock Physics Today 57N10 11-12 (2004). 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. B46, 9586, (1992). Remarks on Dyons, Phys. Symmetry Relations in Nucleon Decay (with Anya Hurlbert), Phys. The first interpretation is to ask whether quantum mechanics explains the phenomenon of free will, or whether there is something else that must be taken into account in our description of the world which is not within the scope . 396. 3. 165.CosmologyandBrokenDiscreteSymmetry(withS.Trivedi,J.PreskillandM.B.Wise), Nucl. In it, we showed that for three degenerate flavors there is a beautiful preferred pattern of pairing, that opens a gap in all colored channels, modifies the photon in such a way that all elementary excitations have integer charge, and breaks chiral symmetry by a new mechanism. 361. Positron Line Radiation as a Signature of Particle Dark Matter in the Halo (with M.S. 137. 238. 265. Simple Realizations of Magnetic Monopole Gauge Fields: Diatoms and Spin Proces- sion (with J. Moody and A. Shapere), Phys. 40, 279 (1977). Rev. 20 hep-th/9408089 [94/51] Lett. It contains quite a bit of secondary material (that is, conference proceedings, reviews, and so forth) and lacks cohesive organization. D30, 130 (1984). D18, 242 (1978). [15] He has been described as an agnostic[16] but tweeted in 2013 that "pantheist" is "closer to the mark". Item 55 was an early use of higher-dimensional spinor representations, when this was considered quite adventurous. B374, 567 (1992). 43, 1059 (1979). In itself it is a clever paper, I think, but it was rapidly overtaken by the explosive development of the field. Rev. 281. The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces, (Basic/Perseus, August 2008). Scaling Mount Planck 2: Base Camp Physics Today 54N11 12-13 (2001). (Aug. 2012). [91/65] 58, 1799 (1987). Dimensionless Constants, Cosmology and Other Dark Matters (with M. Tegmark, A. Aguirre, and M. Rees) Phys. 245. Some Calculable Contributions to Entanglement Entropy, (with M. Hertzberg), (July 2010) hep-th1007.0993 Phys. On Absolute Units 3: Absolutely Not Physics Today 59N5 10-11 (2006). He is now the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 291. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake. ', "Kosciuszko Foundation - American Center of Polish culture - Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry", "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement", "New honorary doctorates in science and technology Uppsala University, Sweden", "Nobel Prize Winner Frank Wilczek to lecture at CU Boulder", "Nobel physics laureate Frank Wilczek wins Templeton Prize for work on science, spirituality links", "Seeking dark matter, they detected another mystery", "Homing in on Axions?" Possible Non-Regge Behavior of Electroproduction Structure Functions (with A. DeRu- jula, S.L. Maxwells Other Demon, Nature 402, 22-23, (4 November 1999). Rev. 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 . Some Applications of a Simple Stationary Line Element for the Schwarzschild Geom- etry, (with P. Kraus), Mod. B349, 414 (1991). 74. 58, 2051 (1987). Continuity of Quark and Hadron Matter, (with T. Scha efer), Phys. Why are there Analogies between Condensed Matter and Particle Theory?, Physics Today, 11 (Jan. 1998). Phys. 39. Items 430 and 460 are special to me. The theory, which was independently discovered by H. David Politzer, was important for the development of quantum chromodynamics. Frank Anthony Wilczek (/wltk/;[2] born May15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate. B 450, 558, (1995). 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. 80. Frank Anthony Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is an American physicist and Nobel laureate (2004). Lett. Applying this rule helps you set up your expectations for training. Realization of the Fredkin Gate Using A Series of One- And Two-body Operators, (with H.F. Chau), Phys. Quantum physics: Majorana modes materialize Nature 486 195-197 (June 2012) [MIT- CTP 4376] 52, 2111 (1984). Several exmamples are presented in Items 97, 98, and 104. Omissions? Kingsley, S. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. Geometric Entropy, Wave Functionals, and Fermions (with F. Larsen), Annals of Physics, 243, 280, (1995). B328, 140 (1989). Lett. 53, 722 (1984). 278. Whence the Force of F=ma? Lett. Rev . In recent years, that battleground has come to appear a rutted landscape. 346. 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 55, 122 (1985). Now we've got a promising candidate, with some real success and exciting prospects. In Item 58 we showed how supersym- metric models based on the group SO(10) (or, of course, a larger group) contain a very natural mechanism for lifting the troublesome Higgs color triplet to very high mass, leaving the doublet behind. Abiding interests include: Professor Frank Wilczek is considered one of the worlds most eminent theoretical physicists. Quantum Properties of Solitons 348. 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. B333, (1994) 55-61. hepth/ 9401072 [93/87] He contributes regularly to Physics Today and to Nature, explaining topics at the frontiers of physics to wider scientific audiences. Selected Publications B340, 366 (1990). Professor Wilczeks professional work has touched on a large variety of questions in theoretical physics. In Search of Symmetry Lost Nature 433 239-247 (2004). 76. 429. Observability of Earth-Skimming Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos (with J. Feng, P. Fisher, Rare Muon Decays, Heavy Leptons and CP Violations (with S. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. Lett., 78 , 2465, (1997). D. 78 083507. astro-ph/0807.1726 [MIT-CTP3950] (2008). 98. 282 What QCD Tells Us About Nature - and Why We Should Listen Nucl. Might Our Vacuum be Metastable? 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