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Frank Wilczek

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Frank Anthony Wilczek ( or; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and H. David Politzer "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".

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