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A conversation with Frank A. Wilczek

DEC 29, 2009
Physics Today
NYTimes.com : He is good-natured, funny, and thought to be among the smartest men in physics: Frank A. Wilczek , 58, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of three winners of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics and is a frequent columnist for Physics Today .The award came for work Wilczek had done in his 20s, with David Gross of Princeton University, on quantum chromodynamics, a theoretical advance that is part of the foundation of modern physics.The New York Times provides an edited version of two conversations with Wilczek, in October and this month.
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