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Frank Wilzcek: Understanding the Universe
September 15, 2008
Frank Wilczek 2004 Nobel laureate, physics

The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics winner, Frank Wilczek, explains the universe, synthesis the Grand Unification of Forces, and shares his vision of a new Golden Age in physics– all for the layperson, in an event celebrating the publication of his new book, The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces. This event was held at the New York Academy of Sciences.

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