Isaac Arthur

Arthur began an educational YouTube channel, Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur, in 2012. In September 2014, Arthur released the first video on the channel on the topic of megastructures. The channel is now host to over 705,000  subscribers and 448  videos as of May 28, 2022 Isaac contributed to the United States Air Force Academy’s simultaneous transition to remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic and the launch of the graduation of USAFA cadets into the United States Space Force by joining USAFA’s Space Policy course as a visiting lecturer.

In 2020, Arthur was named the recipient of the National Space Society's Space Pioneer Award for Education via Mass Media for his YouTube channel.

Arthur was born to two physicists and raised by his mother and his grandfather, Alan Arthur, along with an older sister. He was homeschooled from the age of ten, and dropped out of high school at age twelve. He received his GED at the age of sixteen. In 2001 he graduated at the top of his class with a degree in physics from Kent State University and began to pursue a graduate degree in biophysics. Arthur became involved in local politics and now serves as chairman of the Ashtabula County board of elections. His wife, Sarah Fowler Arthur has represented Ohio's 99th district in the Ohio state legislature since 2021.

Isaac Albert Arthur (born September 20, 1980) is a science communication YouTuber and futurist. He is best known as producer of his YouTube channel, Science & Futurism With Isaac Arthur (SFIA), where he discusses a broad variety of topics on futurism and space colonization.