They're all working on more important shit. 
  
“Investing is increasingly becoming dominated 
by physicists, mathematicians, electrical 
engineers, and programmers,” says Adrian 
Cooper, founder and president of Wall 
Street Analytics (Palo Alto, CA), where 
roughly one-third of the employees are Ph.D. 
physicists. Peter Carr, who heads the Equity 
Derivatives Research Group at Bank of America 
Securities (New York, NY), recalls that all 
of his interviewers for his first position at 
Morgan Stanley were physicists.