Why and how I built the world’s largest study of beauty in science

I’ve received a few questions about why and how I set out to study beauty in science. So here’s the story and a behind-the-scenes look into what went into this project.

The seeds for this study were planted in the late 1990s. When I was in 11th grade in Dubai, I had a physics teacher who was widely considered an eccentric genius. He had shocking white sh…