Can a physicist work as a rocket scientist?

[Cozma Alex]

Main Question or Discussion Point

For an agency can a physicist be employed as a rocket scientist or he has to get a degree in engineering?
If not does he need to take some special courses to convert himself to a rocket scientist?

 

[phinds]

For an agency can a physicist be employed as a rocket scientist or he has to get a degree in engineering?
If not does he need to take some special courses to convert himself to a rocket scientist?

The term "rocket scientist" is not very meaningful. There are all kinds of specialties involved in rocketry. Certainly someone with a physics degree could probably start out in one of the fields but it would likely be easier to move into it early on if you have an engineering degree

 

[ZapperZ]

For an agency can a physicist be employed as a rocket scientist or he has to get a degree in engineering?
If not does he need to take some special courses to convert himself to a rocket scientist?

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Robert_Hutchings_Goddard.aspx
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/may-2014/physicist-turned-rocket-man-looks-to-the-sky-with-spacex

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