# Frank Wilczek **Domain:** Theoretical Physics / Quantum Field Theory / Cosmology **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Quantum Foundations]], [[David Gross]], [[Gerard 't Hooft]], [[Team Leela]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition **Frank Wilczek** is a theoretical physicist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction. ## Corpus Context Wilczek’s work belongs to the physical-foundations layer of the ontology. Speculation about informational or post-biological substrates remains answerable to the structure of matter and fields, even when that structure is not philosophically settled. ## Team Leela Context He appears in [[Team Leela]] as an analytic intellectual intersection. ## Backlinks [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] · [[Team Leela]] ## Sources / Provenance - [KITP — 2004 Nobel Prize](https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/news/kitp-director-awarded-2004-nobel-prize-physics)