Bonjour à toutes et à tous,
J'y vais de ma petite contribution, adressée surtout à l'égard des personnes qui se posent des questions quant aux débouchés d'un cursus (DEA, Thèse...) de physique théorique.
Je cite l'autobiographie du Prix Nobel Américain d'origine néerlandaise Martinus J.G. Veltman :
[...]'t Hooft and I worked together for a few more years, after which we drifted apart. I went my way doing calculations of radiative corrections, something that he was not interested in. The fame of Utrecht had spread, and two young Italian physicists came to work with me: Giam-Piero Passarino and Maurizio Consoli. Some Dutch students at that time were Jochum van der Bij, now professor at Freiburg, Germany and Michel Lemoine, now a free lance Senior Petroleum Engineer. The latter has convinced me that theoretical physics is a good science to be educated in, it prepares for no job in particular but the scientific methods learned are of use in many positions in modern society. So never worry too much what kind of job you will get after finishing a theoretical physics education. For example, the first Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel went to Tinbergen, a former theoretical physicist. And nowadays the banking world is full of particle theorists[...]
http://nobelprize.org/physics/laurea...n-autobio.html
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