Physics career and guy with long hair?

PookDo

Silly question I know but can you have a career as a physicist and be a guy with longer hair?

pmghss

Einstein had sort of "long" hair, though it was more of a fro. Hippie physics.

Mépris

It's okay if you wear a leather skirt, like the guy in Placebo.

TMFKAN64

http://improbable.com/projects/hair/

I haven't checked exactly how many of these are physicists though.

turbo

No. You can't be a nuclear engineer, either, especially if you have a huge beard.

http://physicsforums.com/member.php?u=15685

zoobyshoe

Ever seen a picture of Newton?

HeLiXe

AHA! wasn't that a long wig?

zoobyshoe

Nope. He had very long, prematurely grey hair. He joked that his hair had turned silver from experimenting with mercury so much.

Good pic here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

Pengwuino

Nope. Most physics experiments involve high speed turbines which will chop your beard (and head) clean off. Even theoretical physicists can't have beards because then people confuse them for raving psychotics when they start talking about string theory.

wukunlin

I have long hair and wtf am I reading?

BobG

Having a job and having long hair and a beard are one thing. Once you're hired, they look more at your performance than your hair/beard.

Getting a job when you have long hair and a beard is a different thing. Since they don't really know what your job performance is like, they rely on shallower things.

But it is statistically true that the average hair length of people with careers in physics is shorter than the average hair length as a whole. In fact, that could be the reason more men have careers in physics than women - it's the hair that does it!

BobG

Aaaah, so that's the problem. The ability to read is inversely proportional to one's hair length.

zoobyshoe

Theoretical physicists and string theorists are raving psychotics.

Drakkith

According to military standards I have to follow I should be an AMAZING reader then!

wukunlin

also explains why Buddhist monks shave all their hair off so they are... infinitely good at reading

Pattonias

If you are very well groomed I think you could get a way with it.

Long hair on purpose as apposed to long hair as a result of not cutting your hair.

stonecoldgen

actually, I think that mixes pretty well