Dr. Frank Wilczek honored with "2022 Templeton Prize"

Dr. Frank Wilczek honored with "2022 Templeton Prize"

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Category : Awards Published on: May 14 2022

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  • Frank Wilczek, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author, and professor at four universities among them Stockholm University, is awarded the 2022 Templeton Prize.
  • The Templeton Prize, valued at more than $1.3 million, is one of the world's largest annual individual awards.
  • It is given to honor those who harness the power of the sciences to explore the deepest questions of the universe and humankind’s place and purpose within it.
  • The Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in 2004 for his early-career work establishing the fundamental theory of the strong nuclear force.
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