Chris Whittaker

Chris Whittaker

Chris Whittaker is a physics teacher and Coordinator of the Science Program at Dawson College. He has a Masters Degree in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University where he specialized in aeronautics and nuclear engineering. At Dawson, he created a course for non-science students that explores a variety of topics in physics through movies and TV shows. Before his teaching career, Chris also completed a Masters Degree in Social Work and worked for several years in emergency mental health, with at-risk-youth and as an intake worker at a CLSC. Along the way he also managed to do two radio documentaries for the CBC Radio One program Ideas, including one on how size matters in engineering, biology and the movies.


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    STEPPING THROUGH TIME: THE SCIENCE OF TIME TRAVEL STEPPING THROUGH TIME: THE SCIENCE OF TIME TRAVEL
    Tue. Mar. 19, 2013 - Tue. Mar. 26, 2013 - 12:00 am GMT
    The Big, the Bad and the Impossible: The Physics of Movie Monsters The Big, the Bad and the Impossible: The Physics of Movie Monsters
    Tue. Dec. 10, 2013 - 12:00 am GMT