Henry Reich

Henry Reich is an American physicist, mathematician and filmmaker. He created the popular educational and scientific YouTube channel MinutePhysics and MinuteEarth. The channels feature simple, concise and interesting facts and information about physics and the world around us. As of January 2014, Reich's MinutePhysics channel has over 2.1 million subscribers and 145 million video views.

Biography
Henry Reich, from Mahtomedi, Minnesota, U.S., is born to a University of Minnesota forestry professor and a former science teacher turned environmental activist. He has one younger brother named Alex. Henry lived in briefly in Australia and Argentina as youth. He graduated from Mahtomedi High School and earning degrees in math and physics from Grinnell College in 2009. Henry also earned a master’s in theoretical physics from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Reich created his first films at Mahtomedi High School and whose first YouTube post was a “Star Wars” parody starring his brother. He moved to Los Angeles For a year he worked on small films and for the creators of the popular Freddiew YouTube channel. Additionally Henry studied film at the University of Southern California.

Henry is now an artist in residence at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics near Toronto, Canada, where his primary responsibility is his MinutePhysics.

YouTube
Henry Reich created MinutePhysics on June 20, 2011. His videos consist of time-lapsed drawings with stick figures that explain physics-related topics in around one minute. Reich's goal is to get people excited about learning.

MinutePhysics' first video, posted on June 26, 2011, is titled Minute Physics: What is Gravity?. In the video Henry explains the the basics and discovery of gravity while creating various sketches with black marker on white paper. The video is 1 minute and 26 seconds long.

Following the adage of “write what you know,” Reich started MinutePhysics with the goal of “sharing the awesomeness of the universe with as many people as possible.” He dropped out of USC film school after a semester as MinutePhysics gained a mass following.

Henry's most popular video, named Immovable Object vs. Unstoppable Force - Which Wins?, was posted on January 25, 2013. In the video, which is 3 minutes and 35 seconds long, Henry breakdown the meaning of immovable object and unstoppable force. He concludes that these two objects are the same and when they collide they must pass through each other without changing their velocity. As of January 2014, the video has over 8.8 million views.

Reich has expended his webseries to a 2nd channel named MinuteEarth. On Minute Earth, he talks about earth related facts and phenomena in a similar style to MinutePhysics.

MinutePhysics
MinutePhysics is Henry Reich's main channel. On MinutePhysics, Henry uploads simple and concise commentated sketches that explain facts and theories of physics. As of January 2014, Reich's MinutePhysics channel has over 2.1 million subscribers and 145 million video views.

MinuteEarth
MinuteEarth is Henry's second channel that was created on March 8th, 2013. It features Henry explaining facts and phenomena about earth using simple sketches. As of January 2014, the channel has over 700k subscribers and 19.5 million views.