1. Dianna Cowern was born on May 4,1989 and is an American science communicator and physicist who has created the YouTube channel Physics Girl since 2011.
19 Facts About Dianna Cowern
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Dianna Cowern's videos explain physical phenomena in everyday life using an informal, fast-paced style.
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Dianna Cowern worked in partnership with the PBS Digital Studios from 2015 until 2020.
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Dianna Cowern is one of the most-subscribed science communicators on YouTube.
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Dianna Cowern won Best Web Personality at the 2018 Webby Awards and was included in the 2019 Forbes 30 under 30.
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Dianna Cowern was born on May 4,1989 and raised on Kauai island in Hawaii.
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Dianna Cowern's father was a tree farmer and her mother ran a bed and breakfast.
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Dianna Cowern went to a high school with eighty students, crediting her two physics teachers with her interest in the subject.
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Dianna Cowern studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science.
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Dianna Cowern started her YouTube channel Physics Girl on October 21,2011.
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Dianna Cowern made it as a joke for friends, but it got more views than she expected.
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When Dianna Cowern started making videos, she worked as an iPad app developer at General Electric.
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Dianna Cowern then worked as an educator at Fleet Science Center and the outreach coordinator at University of California at San Diego's Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences research unit.
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Dianna Cowern's channel became popular around this time; in following months, she had some viral videos and collaborated with YouTubers such as Veritasium.
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Dianna Cowern announced on September 25,2020, that her channel was ending its partnership with the PBS.
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Dianna Cowern has said her goals are to give children an interest in physics and to show underrepresented groups such as women in science.
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In 2018, Dianna Cowern won a Webby Award for Best Web Personality.
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In May 2022, Dianna Cowern announced that she had recently married.
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Dianna Cowern became unable to move and stayed at home with her husband as her caretaker.