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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Dr. Frank Wilczek honored with "2022 Templeton Prize"