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Harvard Physicist Reveals She Was Hyped as Next Einstein Against Her Will
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#312 Sabrina Pasterski - Theoretical Physicist on the Hidden Code of the Universe
"I don't like this notion of, I don't know, thinking a bit about what that legacy is and like our field as a whole and how do we kind of leverage that or, or do good with it. No, I mean, it's just not accurate. I think I'll probably benefit from it too much, but that's— and that's a bad thing."
Sabrina Pasterski disclosed that the 'next Einstein' label originated from clickbait media in 2015-2016 and that she dislikes the comparison because it is undeserved and creates career problems within the insular string theory community. She said the hype helped her family but alienated colleagues in a field where popular science outreach is often distanced from serious research.
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