AMA | October 2024

637.519 - 657.053 Sean Carroll

It is absolutely possible. But it's hard. It's like one more little barrier. If you think about all of the things that make it difficult to get a faculty job in physics, like... Maybe you're not talented enough. Maybe you are talented enough, but you got stuck with a bad advisor. Maybe you got stuck with a good advisor, but somehow you just didn't come up with the good research programs.