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Frank Wilczek
Full Name of the recipient | Frank Wilczek |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 2004 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | David J. Gross (33.3%) H. David Politzer (33.3%) |
Motivation for the Award | for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA |
Place of Birth | New York, NY, United States USA |
Date of Birth | 15 May 1951 |
Age at the time of Award | 52 years |