Celebrate All Scientists: Dr. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today, and LSC is celebrating Dr. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, an accomplished theoretical physicist.
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is an inspirational Cuban-American theoretical physicist from Chicago who studies high energy physics. At the age of 14, she became the youngest person to build an airplane, guarantee its airworthiness, and take the initiative to conduct its first flight. During her physics studies at MIT, she became the first woman to win the MIT Physics Orloff Scholarship award. Dr. Pasterski, now 29, has been dubbed the next Einstein on multiple occasions.
Pasterski began her doctoral studies in physics at Harvard when she was 24 years old. She also composed a research paper in 2015 that the great Stephen Hawking used as a source in his own work. With all of the accolades she has accumulated, she still continues to pride herself on being a first-generation Cuban-American and Chicago Public Schools alumna.
Pasterski once said: “When I want to motivate myself to do more… if there’s a particular task that I want to do but haven’t been able to do, and I see that someone else has done it, I think ‘If they can do it, I can do it.’ ”
“The access to content—what you can learn, what you can study—is growing, so anyone can learn anything, even in their home. You can take classes and listen to lectures from Harvard and other places online. (You have) access to content and access to each other.”
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