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A comment on Ask HN: Do any of you have degrees in Physics? What career path did you take?.

Re:Ask HN: Do any of you have degrees in Physics? What caree... by rexpi0 on Friday March 27, 2015 @07:33PM (#9279728)
I have a PhD in HEP; got it on ATLAS at CERN and contributed to the Higgs discovery analysis in the H->ZZ*->4l channel. I work at NASA and still do particle physics, but a lot of my work is software oriented - anything from scripting to developing data analysis frameworks to web development to fixing legacy code.
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Re:Ask HN: Do any of you have degrees in Physics? What caree... by SampleRate on Friday March 27, 2015 @07:42PM (#9279764)
Wow, that sounds incredible to have been involved with the Higgs discovery and to now be working at NASA. You must be very satisfied with your career so far!
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Re:Ask HN: Do any of you have degrees in Physics? What caree... by rexpi0 on Friday March 27, 2015 @07:56PM (#9279822)
Yep, I have been very satisfied and fortunate. Only thing that irks me these days is horrible legacy software and dealing with stubborn people that don't want to leave the stone age of computing.
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