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Frank Wilczek — Beauty as a Compass for Truth

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Adan, a Coffee Percolator - That's My Earliest Memory

frank wilchuck won the two thousand four nobel prize in physics for his discoveries about quarks that helped illuminate our understanding of the four fundamental forces of nature. He's a professor at m i t, and he grew up in queens. I remember very vividly sitting on my parents kitchen floor with a tile pattern and we had a percolator, an old fashioned coffee percolator,. And i just was taking it part, putting it back together, seeing that it could actually be done over and over again, and that things would fit....

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