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SPEAKER:
Frank Wilczek
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT
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ABOUT THE LECTURE:
"We can cook up a superb model of ordinary matter (allowing a very liberal definition of ordinary) using four numerical parameters as ingredients. A passable model needs only two. After adding another two ingredients, for six total, we can serve up astrophysics. Five might do in a pinch. I'll describe the ingredients, and show you the recipe."
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Frank Wilczek is considered one of the world's most eminent theoretical physicists. He is known, among other things, for the discovery of asymptotic freedom, the development of quantum chromodynamics, the invention of axions, and the discovery and exploitation of new forms of quantum statistics (anyons). When only 21 years old and a graduate student at Princeton University, he and David Gross defined the properties of gluons, which hold atomic nuclei together.
Professor Wilczek's Homepage
The information on this page was accurate as of the day the video was added to MIT World. This video was added to MIT World on 2001-04-26.
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