If you went by only the online feedback written by Egbert Schwartz's students, you'd think he was some kind of unholy cross between Albert Einstein and Brad Pitt (taking only the best from each, of course). "The hottest professor at NAU" and "Smartest human being ever. A mega-genius" are only two of the more fulsome descriptors used by past students. While it's doubtful that the federal government gives research grants based on hotness, they do use intelligence as a guideline - and the National Science Foundation obviously thinks he's a genius, too, or they wouldn't have given him nearly seven hundred thousand dollars to pursue his research into the genomes of bacterial species that live in soil. His research does have enormous potential (think about a designer bacterium that eats trash, just for example), and he's definitely one to watch - and possibly sigh over, too, if you happen to be a susceptible undergraduate.
If you went by only the online feedback written by Egbert Schwartz's students, you'd think he was some kind of unholy cross between Albert Einstein and Brad Pitt (taking only the best from each, of course). "The hottest professor at NAU" and "Smartest human being ever. A mega-genius" are only two of the more fulsome descriptors used by past students. While it's doubtful that the federal government gives research grants based on hotness, they do use intelligence as a guideline - and the National Science Foundation obviously thinks he's a genius, too, or they wouldn't have given him nearly seven hundred thousand dollars to pursue his research into the genomes of bacterial species that live in soil. His research does have enormous potential (think about a designer bacterium that eats trash, just for example), and he's definitely one to watch - and possibly sigh over, too, if you happen to be a susceptible undergraduate.