Quantum Beauty


Frank Wilzek's

A Beautiful Question

Professor Frank Wilczek

Herman Feshback Professor of Physics

2004 Nobel Prize in Physics

wilczek@mit.edu

Area of Research:

Particle/Quantum Physics


See Wilczek's bio on the M.I.T. Physics department website.


Read Wilczek's Nobel Prize Lecture as a PDF.

Editorial Reviews:


  • “Mr. Wilczek takes the reader on an expertly curated tour across 2,500 years of philosophy and physics…One of the great pleasures of Mr. Wilczek’s book is his wide-ranging interest in the way the beauty he finds in symmetry appears across human experience. …He has accomplished a rare feat: Writing a book of profound humanity based on questions aimed directly at the eternal.”— The Wall Street Journal

  • “Inspiring and remarkably accessible… Wilczek’s language is lyrical and almost mystical…whatever the answer Nature will ultimately give us, we have the pleasure of engaging with an enlightened and humble mind.”—The Chronicle of Higher Education