"I guess it's a little different now," he muses.
After college, he headed to Berkeley before finishing his doctorate at MIT.
"[In graduate school] I realized, as others had, that there was this great puzzle...that the laws of physics as I learned them as an undergraduate didn't fit together and weren't consistent," he says.
It was his endeavor to solve this puzzle that eventually led him to the field of string theory, and then, back to Harvard this fall, where he joined his father, Jack L. Strominger '46-'47, Higgins professor of biochemistry, on the Faculty.
The father of four daughters says he doesn't mind working for the same company his dad does.
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"It's a lot of fun," he says.