Women and people of colour are underrepresented in physics in many parts of the world, to the detriment of the field. How do academics’ beliefs about the role of ‘brilliance’ in career success contribute to these representation gaps, and what can be done to address them?
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This work was supported by funds from the US Institute of Education Sciences (Grant R305A200355) and the US National Science Foundation (Grant BCS-1733897) awarded to A. Cimpian; by a US National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (under Grant DGE-2234660) awarded to S. H. Arnold; and by a Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training Fellowship (supported by the US Institute of Education Sciences through Grant R305B200010 to New York University) awarded to A. Poddar.
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Muradoglu, M., Arnold, S.H., Poddar, A. et al. Why a culture of brilliance is bad for physics. Nat Rev Phys 6, 75–77 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-023-00685-x
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