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Frank Wilczek/ T. D. Lee Professor, Chief Scientist
Condensed Matter Division
wilczek AT sjtu.edu.cn http://frankwilczek.com/
Frank Wilczek, the 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics, and the Founding Director of Tsung-Dao Lee Institute. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1970, and a PhD in physics at Princeton University in 1974. Wilczek worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
He is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research Interests

  • "Pure" particle physics, especially connections between ambitious theoretical ideas and concrete observable phenomena (e.g. applications of asymptotic freedom, unification of couplings)
  • The behavior of matter at ultra-high temperature and/or density (e.g. phase structure of QCD, application to cosmology, neutron stars and stellar explosions)
  • The application of insights from particle physics to cosmology (e.g. axions as dark matter candidates, search techniques for these and for WIMPs)
  • The application of field theory techniques to condensed matter physics (e.g.exotic quantum numbers on solitons of various sorts, statistical transmutation and fractional statistics in the quantum Hall effect)
  • The quantum theory of black holes (e.g. existence of quantum hair, entanglement entropy)

Honorary Information

  • 2021, Foreign CAS Academican
  • 2017, Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • 2013, Oskar Klein Medal, Stockholm University
  • 2004, Nobel Prize in Physics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2003, High Energy Physics Prize, European Physical Society
  • 2003, Lilienfeld Prize, American Physical Society
  • 2002, Lorentz Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science
  • 2000, Elected Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1994, ICTP Dirac Medal
  • 1993, Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1990, Member, National Academy of Sciences
  • 1986, American Physical Society J.J. Sakurai Prize

Representative Papers And Monographs

  • Quark Description of Hadronic Phases. Schäfer T, Wilczek F. Quark description of hadronic phases. Physical Review D, 1999, 60(7):074014.
  • Continuity of Quark and Hadron Matter. Schäfer T, Wilczek F. Physical Review Letters, 1999, 82(20):3956-3959.
  • High Density Quark Matter and the Renormalization Group in QCD with Two and Three Flavors. Thomas Schäfer, Wilczek F. Physics Letters B, 1999, 450(4):325-331.
  • Color-Flavor Locking and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in High Density QCD. Alford M, Rajagopal K, Wilczek F. Nuclear Physics B, 1998, 537(1-3):443-458.
  • Fermion Masses, Neutrino Oscillations, and Proton Decay in the Light of SuperKamiokande. Babu K S, Pati J C, Wilczek F. Nuclear Physics, 1998.
  • Quantum Field Theory. Wilczek F. Review of Modern Physics, 1998.
  • Riemann-Einstein Structure from Volume and Gauge Symmetry. Wilczek, Frank. Physical Review Letters, 1998, 80(22):4851-4854.
  • A Chern-Simons Effective Field Theory for the Pfaffian Quantum Hall State. Fradkin E, Nayak C, Tsvelik A, Wilczek F. Nuclear Physics B, 1997, 516(3):704-718.
  • The Cosmic Asymmetry between Matter and Antimatter. Wilczek, Frank. Scientific American, 1980, 243(6):82-90.