Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

• Analyzing data from researching conducted for detecting and measuring physical phenomena.
• Reporting experimental results by writing papers for scientific journals or by presenting information at scientific conferences.
• Designing computer simulations for modeling physical data so that it can be better understood.
• Collaborating with other scientists in the design, development, and testing of experimental, industrial, or medical equipment, instrumentation, and procedures.
• Developing theories and laws on the basis of observation and experiments, and applying these theories and laws to problems in areas such as nuclear energy, optics, and aerospace technology.
• Teaching physics to students.
• Developing manufacturing, assembly, and fabrication processes of lasers, masers, infrared, and other light emitting and light sensitive devices.
• Developing standards of permissible concentrations of radioisotopes in liquids and gases.