Synopsis: Fifteen celebrated physicists describe five key benefits of studying physics in higher education and how it can open a wide range of career options.
Runtime: 28 mins. | Production year: 2018
Featured researchers:
- Nima Arkani-Hamed, permanent faculty member, Institute for Advanced Study
- Claudia de Rham, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Imperial College London
- Joseph Curtin, master violinmaker and acoustician
- 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 and Co-Director of the Grantham Institute
- Justin Khoury, Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
- Rocky Kolb, the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
- 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
- Jill Tarter, Chair Emeritus for SETI Research at SETI Institute and Former Director of the Center for SETI Research
- Scott Tremaine, Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study
