[riverdawg]

I’m all for denigrating Jimmy Carter at (almost) every opportunity. But the truth is that Carter graduated from The Naval Academy with a degree in physics, and then took graduate courses at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics. I would never deny that Carter was smart in an intellectual way. He simply didn’t have much common sense, and he had no understanding of the basic principles of economics and management.

[broncobilly]

“Carter graduated from The Naval Academy with a degree in physics, and then took graduate courses at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics.”

What I wrote still holds. The professional degree in physics is the PhD. To be a nuclear physicist, one would need a PhD specializing in nuclear physics with course work and demonstrated ability to do original research. Reactor technology is one step below reactor engineering. To study reactor engineering or reactor technology, all one would need in the way of nuclear physics courses is an “elementary” nuclear physics survey course at the first year graduate level. I know what I am talking about. I hold a PhD in nuclear and plasma physics. Believe me, Carter is not a nuclear physicist. He can’t even pronounce the word.