Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist known for his contributions to the field of particle physics, particularly in the areas of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions, and the study of fundamental particles. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004, along with David Gross and H. David Politzer, for their work on the asymptotic freedom of the strong force, which describes how quarks and gluons interact at different energy scales.

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Frank Wilczek by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
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Frank Wilczek and David Gross established asymptotic freedom in a class of Non-Abelian gauge theories. The effective interaction weakens at shorter distances, up to calculable logarithmic corrections. This permits perturbation theory to describe sufficiently high-energy processes in quantum chromodynamics, despite its strong long-distance interactions. Their 1973 result connected the approximate scaling seen in deep inelastic scattering with the dynamics of a gauge theory.[ref]
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. Bengt Oberger, own photograph, 9 December 2017. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International., via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
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