Frank Anthony Wilczek, born on May 15, 1951, in Mineola, New York, United States, is a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist. He attended Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, New York, and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1970 and a PhD in physics from Princeton University in 1974. His early career included collaboration with David Gross, leading to groundbreaking work on asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 with Gross and H. David Politzer. Wilczek serves as the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, where he has also held positions such as founding director of the T. Theoretical Advanced Study Institute. He has authored books and continues to influence theoretical physics through research on symmetry and fundamental forces.