Synopsis: Thirteen professional physicists, including three Nobel Laureates, provide a spectrum of fascinating glimpses into the excitement and frustrations of life at the front lines of physics research.
Runtime: 25 mins. | Production year: 2017
Featured researchers:
- Nima Arkani-Hamed, permanent faculty member, Institute for Advanced Study
- Claudia de Rham, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Imperial College London
- Freeman Dyson (1923-2020), mathematical physicist, Institute for Advanced Study
- Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford & Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies and Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore
- Joanna Haigh, Professor Emerita of Atmospheric Physics, Imperial College London
- Justin Khoury, Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
- Rocky Kolb
- Tony Leggett, Nobel Laureate, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair Emeritus of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Jenny Nelson, Professor of Physics and Head of the Climate Change Mitigation Team at the Grantham Institute, Imperial College London
- Roger Penrose, Nobel Laureate, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford
- David Politzer, Nobel Laureate and the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech
- Paul Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Director of the Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University.
- Scott Tremaine, Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study
