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Physicists Profiles
What You Can Do With Physics
Physicists don't all work in labs or teach physics, although many do, and love their jobs.
A physics degree will qualify you for a variety of careers from inventing to analyzing to improving. Find out the diversity of physics by exploring the jobs of these physicists.
Albin Gonzalez
Albin is a medical physicist from Panama currently working at Mercy Cancer Center in Elyria, Ohio, where he is helping patients beat cancer.
Alejandro Rodriguez
Alejandro enjoys salsa dancing, watching movies, and studying micro machines.
Alicia Soderberg
Alicia once wanted to be an environmental scientist, but she fell in love with looking at the stars in the night's sky.
Alison Binkowski
Alison is a physicist, policy analyst, avid traveler, and proficient in Spanish and Mandarin.
Carlos Gutierrez
Hispanic materials scientist inspiring students and finding materials to make devices work better
Chien Chung (Didi) Pei
Didi has contributed his design skills to structures all over the world.
Christina Barrow
Christina uses physics everyday to make sure that veterans receive quality cancer radiation treatments.
Claudia Alexander
Claudia likes to write science fiction and ride horses when she's not studying comets and moons.
Collin Joseph
Collin loves to cook when he's not too busy in the biophysics lab.
David Sweigart
David enjoys playing Frisbee after a long day of school and lab work.
David X. Cohen
David grew up surrounded by science, but chose to pursue comedy writing as a career.
Deborah Berebichez
Debbie finds that her most rewarding work lies in public speaking and getting others excited about science.
Edward Thomas
Edward admits that physics is hard, but there are many exciting projects that make all the work worthwhile.
Ellen Ochoa
Ellen once considered an education in music, but instead, she became the first Hispanic woman in space.
Elon Musk
Elon is an entrepreneur, rumored to be the modern-day Tony Stark, and inspiration for the Iron Man movies.
Evelynn Hammonds
Evelynn holds honorary degrees at Spelman College and Bates College.
Gabriela Gonzalez
Gabriela shapes minds as a professor and attempts to unlock the mysteries of Gravitational Waves as a researcher.
Ginger Kerrick
Ginger can speak Russian, plays basketball, and likes to ride motorcycles.
Hakeem Oluseyi
Hakeem discovered Einstein in Mississippi at 11 and grew up to become an astrophysicist studying supernovae from Florida.
James Kakalios
James teaches physics with comic books and superheroes and consults for movies such as Watchmen.
Keivan Stassun
Keivan says the best thing about being a physicist is there’s no better way to impress the person sitting next to you on an airplane.
Kelle Cruz
Kelle spends much of her time looking at small stars, but when's she not looking at stars, she's blogging and traveling.
Luz Martinez-Miranda
Luz is fascinated by the way optics problems relate to the real world. “There was something about lenses that made me want to study more,” she says.
Lynett Rock
Lynett Rock, a member of the Cherokee Nation, first learned physics via satellite. Now she teaches college physics and math in person.
Marta Dark McNeese
Marta chose physics mostly because she was fascinated with optics, and a little bit because she was afraid of chemicals and disliked knives.
Nadya Mason
Nadya went from gymnastics Olympic hopeful to research scientist.
Paul Markoff–Johnson
Paul has spent most of his career working on creating incredibly thin coatings made of materials selected for their special abilities.
Ronald Mickens
Ron's curious mind and passion for science led him to pursue a career as an educator and a physicist.
Sam Wurzel
Sam likes to fix bikes and build things in his spare time.
Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley has come a long way from her childhood fascination with the bumblebees in her backyard.
Steven Chu
Steven won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics and works as the Secretary of Energy under President Barack Obama.
