Jorge Cham
Panamaian-born cartoonist (born 1976)
Biography
Jorge Gabriel Cham (Spanish: [ˈxorxe]) (born 1976) is an engineer-turned cartoonist, writer and producer, who writes the web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics). Cham was born in Panama and lives in the United States, where he started drawing PhD Comics as a graduate student at Stanford University. He has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in six published book collections.
He was featured on NPR on December 20, 2010. With physicist Daniel Whiteson, he is the coauthor of We Have No Idea (2017), a book about unsolved problems in physics. In September 2018, Cham and Whiteson debuted the podcast Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe, produced by iHeartMedia, in which the hosts aim to explain popular questions and complex topics about science, technology, and the universe, in the simplest way possible. In October 2024 the podcast ended as co-hosts Whiteson and Cham decided to pursue separate projects.
Cham co-created the PBS Kids animated series Elinor Wonders Why, which premiered in September 2020.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- California Institute of Technology
Notable works
- Piled Higher and Deeper
Quick answers about Jorge Cham
- How old is Jorge Cham?
- Jorge Cham is 50 years old (born May 1976).
- Where was Jorge Cham born?
- Jorge Cham was born in Panama.
- What does Jorge Cham do?
- Jorge Cham is known as cartoonist, roboticist, engineer, visual artist.
