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Why physicists look down on engineers?
One reason why physicists look down on engineers is that their two disciplines are often artificially divided. Physicists in the company had argued that these junctions consumed significantly less power than the competing silicon technology of the time and, moreover, could be switched in less than 5 ns.
Why are physicists more famous than mathematicians?
It’s mainly because almost everyone in the scientific community and non-scientific community consider Newton to be the ULTIMATE man of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem). And mostly people think of Newton more as a physicist than a mathematician.
Is a physicist smarter than an engineer?
One cannot say, that a physicist is smarter than an engineer, or an engineer is smarter than a salesman, or a salesman is smarter than a manager and so on. A smart person can choose any profession, and often times, many smart people actually end up choosing engineering over physics or vice a versa.
What skills do engineers need to be a good physicist?
Engineers need a lot of common sense, and pragmatic thinking. They need to navigate corporate world, which can be a nightmare for some of the more introverted physicists. In the end, it’s a matter of different set of skills.
Is there such a thing as an interdisciplinary physicist?
Many of my postdoctoral and professor colleagues do extremely interdisciplinary work at the intersection of theoretical physics, chemistry, engineering, and computer science. Some identify as chemists, others physicists, and a few as engineers.
Was Lars Onsager smarter than an engineer or a physicist?
Therefore, it is safe to conclude that Lars Onsager was smarter than engineers when he was a physicist and smarter than physicists when he was an engineer. I took these two graduate class once which were full of engineers. There was one guy in the class from the physics department.