[The Knowledge Project Ep. #162] Nathan Myhrvold

Shane: I want to start with your postdoc. You worked for Stephen Hawking. How did you end up working with him?

Nathan: Well, that wasn’t a surprise, in a sense. I was a graduate student in physics. I got my PhD at Princeton. The kind of physics that I was interested in is the kind that Stephen does. It was about quantum theories of space and time. So I applied to a number of places …, and that was my top choice. And he said yes. That’s how I got there.