2004 Nobel Prize
2022 Templeton Award
THEORETICAL PHYSICIST
CHROMOTECHNOLOGIST
NOBEL LAUREATE AUTHOR
ABOUT
Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 and Templeton Prize in 2022. Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. His current theoretical research includes work on Axions, Anyons, and Time Crystals. These are concepts in physics which he named and pioneered. Each has become a major focus of world-wide research.
EVENTS
AWARDS AND HONORS
Major Awards and Honors
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2004 : Nobel Prize in Physics
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2022 : Templeton Prize
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2005 : King Faisal International Prize for Science
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1982 : MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
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1994 : Dirac Medal and Prize, International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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2002 : Lorentz Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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2003 : Lilienfeld Prize, American Physical Society
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1986 : J. J. Sakurai Prize, American Physical Society
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2013 : Oskar Klein Medal, Stockholm University
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2022 : First Steven Weinberg Medal, University of Texas at Austin
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2025 : First Prize, Gravity Research Foundation (with Sreenath Manikandan)
Academies and Societies
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U.S. National Academy of Sciences
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Philosophical Society
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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Chinese Academy of Sciences (Foreign Member)