Sean Carroll
Theoretical physicist and science writer
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist and philosopher of science at Johns Hopkins University. He has written popular books on physics, including The Particle at the End of the Universe.
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American Born 1966 in Philadelphia, United States
About Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll is the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and is also affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1993. His research spans quantum mechanics, gravitation, statistical mechanics and cosmology. He also wrote Spacetime and Geometry, a graduate textbook on general relativity. Carroll also works as a science communicator. He has appeared on TV programs such as The Colbert Report and has recorded lecture courses for The Great Courses. In 2018 he began the Mindscape podcast, in which he interviews experts from many fields. The Particle at the End of the Universe tells the story of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson. The Big Picture looks at the origins of life, meaning and the universe. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe is a book series that grew out of his video lessons, and its first volume, Space, Time, and Motion, was published in September 2022.