Frank Wilczek, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, has been awarded the 2022 Templeton Prize for work that reveals “a vision of a universe that he regards as embodying mathematical beauty at ...

Frank Wilczek, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author renowned for his boundary-pushing investigations into the fundamental laws of nature, was honored Wednesday with this year’s ...

Frank Wilczek has a special fondness for rainbows. It’s not just the show-stopping, full-arc-across-the-sky rainbows that catch the Nobel laureate’s eye. He’s equally transfixed by the array of color ...

Plato seems to be making a bit of a comeback in the world of science. Last year Andreas Wagner argued in Arrival of the Fittest, that evolution works like a search engine, painstakingly finding those ...

FRANK A. WILCZEK School of Natural Sciences Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, N.J. Recently there have been dramatic developments in the theory of knots. Methods of statistical mechanics and ...

Valued at more than $1.3 million, the Templeton Prize is one of the world's largest annual individual awards. Established by the late global investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton, it is given ...

For a safari-like adventure into the world of physics, follow Wilczek’s lead. Quirky but knowledgeable, he explores the essence of the matter that makes up the universe — combining the enthusiasm of ...

As a theoretical physicist, Frank Wilczek has made a career out of dreaming up new ways to understand our physical universe—and he’s usually right. In the early 1980’s, he predicted the existence of a ...

Nobel Physicist Frank Wilczek 'The World is a Piece of Art' Nobel Prize-winner Frank Wilczek talks to SPIEGEL about the universe's extraordinary symmetry, the overlap between beauty and physics and ...

Frank Wilczek has received many prizes for his work in physics, including the Nobel Prize of 2004 for work he did as a graduate student at Princeton University, when he was only 21 years old. He is ...