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By Frank Wilczek on June 6, 2012 1:51 PM | No comments yet

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$Three icons of twentieth century science. Clockwise: The double helix structure of DNA, revealed by analysis of its x-ray diffraction pattern (credit: Richard Wheeler via Wikimedia); anisotropies in the microwave background radiation, providing a picture of the very early universe (credit: WMAP Science Team, NASA); motion of the continents, proved and then mapped by analysis of magnetic field reversals at mid-ocean ridges. In each case, the enabling sensitive instruments and technologies depend upon profound understanding of the properties of matter, based on microphysics (credit: EMAG2)$

Frank Wilczek

Frank Wilczek
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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 known, among other things, for the discovery of asymptotic freedom, the development of quantum chromodynamics, the invention of axions, and the exploration of new kinds of quantum statistics. Frank is currently the Herman Feshbach professor of physics at MIT. His latest book is The Lightness of Being.

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