We have arrived at another station of exclusive interviews with the world's renowned scientists and Nobel Prize laureates. This time, we have talked to the 61-year-old American theoretical physicist and mathematician, Frank Wilczek.
Frank Anthony Wilczek was born on May 15, 1951 in Mineola , New York . He currently works as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Prof. David Gross and H. David Politzer for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.
Wilczek received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1970, a Master of Arts in Mathematics at Princeton University , 1972, and a Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University in 1974. He has the experience of working for the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California , Santa Barbara . He currently serves on the board for Society for Science & the Public. Society for Science & the Public is a Washington-based non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of science through educational and advocacy programs.
Prof. Wilczek has worked in different areas of physics, including Asymptotic Freedom, Quantum chromodynamics and Quantum Statistics. He has supervised tens of doctoral students and won numerous international scientific awards, including the 1986 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, Lorentz Medal in 2002, Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society in 2003 and Physics Commemorative Medal from Charles University in Prague .
He has written several books, of which the most important ones are "The Lightness of Being," "Longing for Harmonies" and "Fantastic Realities" in which he describes his scientific life and his journey to the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Frank Wilczek has been a science promoter and worked intensively to popularize scientific discourses for the ordinary public, especially the young students.
"If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake," he says.
This exclusive interview with the world-renowned American physicist Frank Wilczek was published in Persian in Iran 's oldest scientific magazine, Daneshmand, and is appearing in English for the first time on CounterCurrents.
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