Physicist podcast from the University of Chile exceeds 40,000 listeners and launches its seventh season

“Physics Podcasts”, a program created by Rodrigo Soto, director of the ANID Nucleo Milenio Física de la Materia Activa center and academic at the University of Chile (DFI-FCFM), has just launched its seventh season focused on the Nobel Prizes in Physics. For the second semester, it is also preparing another season dedicated to inventions based on Physics, whose chapters were the result of a survey among teachers.

Leyla Ramírez, Communications Millennium Nucleus Physics of Active Matter.- With six seasons, its own website, three years of existence and more than 40,000 listeners, “Physics Podcasts” was consolidated this year as one of the leading science outreach programs nationwide. The space has doubled its audience since 2022, mainly among teachers throughout the region (its target audience), who not only follow it on multiple platforms, but also actively participate in the content that some of its chapters will have.

“We are very happy with the great reception that the podcasts have had among teachers, where most of the auditors are from Chile, but there are also many from other countries such as Spain, Colombia, Argentina or Mexico”, says Rodrigo Soto, director of the ANID Nucleo Millennium Physics of Active Matter center and academic at the University of Chile (DFI-FCFM) responsible for this program created in 2020.

«Physics Podcasts» has just launched its seventh season dedicated to the Nobel Prizes in Physics. In each chapter, the academic from the University of Chile will talk with various invited physicists. In the first of them, he interviewed the physicist Marcelo Loewe about Quarks (1969). “This year we will have at least two seasons, the first, which we have already launched, is about Nobel Prize winners, where we have episodes about quarks, magnetism and plasmas. The second season is about physics-based inventions, where we did a survey among teachers and the selected ones were: nuclear magnetic resonance, the transistor, the laser, nuclear reactors and quartz, atomic and nuclear clocks”, forward.

This is the second year, moreover, that “Physics Podcasts” receives funding from the ANID Centers External Media Projection program, which strengthens its impact.

The series is available for free on your Web, where teachers can find extra information and download the chapters. You can also find the chapters on platforms like Spotify, Manzana and tantaku.