Rate My Professor Frank Wilczek

Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist whose academic career includes substantial connections to Princeton University, where he completed his Ph.D. in physics in 1974 after earning an M.A. in mathematics there in 1972. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Chicago in 1970. Wilczek served on the faculty at Princeton from 1974 to 1981. His research specializations encompass particle physics, quantum chromodynamics, and related areas such as axions, anyons, and time crystals. Subsequent appointments include positions at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the Institute for Advanced Study as the J.R. Oppenheimer Professor, and since 2000 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics. He has also held adjunct and visiting roles at other institutions.