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Greatest Physicists:

Greatest Physicists #1 - Isaac Newton

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Greatest Physicists #1 - Isaac Newton The first and greatest physicist in my estimation is Isaac Newton, born in 1643. Lots of commenters absolutely correctly picked out Newton for the top spot, and had I picked anyone else (with the...

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Greatest Physicists #2 - Albert Einstein

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Einstein. When a person's name and photograph are both literal synonyms for genius, it's a pretty good sign they're among the greatest of the greats

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Greatest Physicists #3 - James Clerk Maxwell

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#3 - James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell is my favorite physicist. This site takes its name from a wise thing he once said: "In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which...

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Greatest Physicists #4 - Michael Faraday

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One day sir, you may tax it.

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Greatest Physicists #5 - Richard Feynman

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#5 - Richard Feynman I'm probably going to take some flack for this one. Feynman was and is so popular as a scientific writer, raconteur, and honest-to-goodness celebrity that his staggering scientific accomplishments are sometimes lost in the shadow of...

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Greatest Physicists #6 - Ernest Rutherford

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#6 - Ernest Rutherford The New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford was an incubator of genius, and a genius himself. His position on this list is probably a little unorthodox as he wasn't a very flashy scientist and he wasn't a...

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Greatest Physicists #7 - Erwin Schrodinger

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Why does Schrodinger deserve an epic poem? Because he's the 7th greatest physicist, that's why.

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Greatest Physicists #8 - Paul Dirac

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Dirac was a physicist of incredible brilliance even by the standards of the great physicists.

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Greatest Physicists #9 - J.J Thomson

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More than anyone else, we owe J.J. Thomson for what we know about the electron.

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Greatest Physicists #10 - Wolfgang Pauli

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#10: Wolfgang Pauli Wolfgang Pauli was once asked to critique a paper of questionable merit. As he is said to have put it, "This is not right. It is not even wrong." It was a good and concise statement of...

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