Synopsis: Eight renowned physicists and a mathematician share inspiring stories about influential high school teachers and how those teachers had a lasting impact on them while giving their candid views on how physics and mathematics teaching might be improved.
Runtime: 24 mins.
Featured researchers:
- Nima Arkani-Hamed, permanent faculty member, Institute for Advanced Study
- Claudia de Rham, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Imperial College London
- 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 at the University of Pennsylvania
- Rocky Kolb, the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
- Paul Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Director of the Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University
- Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, University of Warwick
- Scott Tremaine, Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study
