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The top physicists of all time
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1 Albert Einstein |
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2 Isaac Newton |
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3 James Clerk Maxwell |
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4 Niels Bohr |
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5 Werner Heisenberg |
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6 Galileo Galilei |
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7 Richard Feynman |
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8= Paul Dirac |
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8= Erwin Schrödinger |
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10 Ernest Rutherford |
| 11= Ludwig Boltzmann 1844-1906 Austrian, Michael Faraday 1791-1867 British, Max Planck 1858-1947 German: 16 votes each
14 Enrico Fermi 1901-1954 Italian: 13 votes 15 Marie Curie 1867-1934 Polish/French: 6 votes 16= John Bardeen 1908-1991 American, Lev Landau 1908-1968 Russian: 4 votes each 18= John Bell 1928-1990 British, Hans Bethe born 1906 German/American, Josiah Gibbs 1839-1903 American: 3 votes each. Two votes: Archimedes, Nicolas Copernicus, Pierre Curie, Gerard ‘t Hooft, Edwin Hubble, Johannes Kepler, Wolfgang Pauli, William Shockley, J J Thomson, Charles Townes, Steven Weinberg, Hideki Yukawa. One vote: Carl Anderson, Aristotle, Charles Bennett, Gerd Binnig, Felix Bloch, Nicolas Carnot, Rudolf Clausius, Democritos, Christian Doppler, Thomas Edison, Euclid, Arthur Eddington, Leonhard Euler, Stephen Hawking, David Hilbert, Paul Langevin, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Michelson, Lars Onsager, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Lord Rayleigh, Martin Rees, Heinrich Rohrer, Wilhelm Röntgen, Arthur Schawlow, Alan Turing, John Wheeler, Kent Wilson, Chen Ning Yang. Names in bold indicate physicists who are still alive. |









