
Lessons from Curiosity-Driven Physics Research
Dr. Suzie Sheehy, Associate Professor, Baker/ANSTO Fellow in Medical Accelerator Physics (University of Melbourne) is giving a public talk at the University of Victoria on Thursday, February 27th at 7pm in ECS 125.
In this talk titled “Lessons from Curiosity-Driven Physics Research” accelerator physicist and author Suzie Sheehy will share her key lessons from over 100 years of curiosity-driven experiments to understand the microscopic. Far from just talking about revolutions in understanding the cosmos, Sheehy will share lessons learned by bringing physics down to Earth and putting it firmly back where it belongs, in the hands of the people. From the serendipitous discovery of X-rays in a German laboratory, to the scientists trying to prove Einstein wrong about quantum mechanics (and inadvertently proving him right), to the race to split the atom: physicists have shaped innumerable aspects of how we live today.
Suzie is an award-winning speaker, author, and science communicator, dedicated to bringing stories of science and scientists to the wider community. Her 2018 TED talk on ‘The Case for Curiosity Driven Research’ has been viewed almost 2 million times, and her acclaimed popular science book ‘The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World’, has been published worldwide in 12 languages.