STEM Insights

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