Top 10 Theoretical Physicists of All Times
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2021
- Hello everyone, this video is our ranking of the 10 greatest theoretical physicists of all times. We have adjusted this ranking with great care and obsession based on the impact and revolutionary nature of the achievements of these scientists.
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For Newton to do what he did and when he did and how he did it is incredible.
True!
Ludwig Boltzman is sorely missed in this list. He is the founder of modern statistical physics and all the subsequent piece of great works in QM are built on that. Infact, he should be there in the very top league in any sort of rankings among physicsts.
Great list, and I think you order is pretty spot on. Newton, Einstein then Maxwell
Clearly, you're deaf
Yes, Newton was the best.
Frank DiMeglio is number one. Newton ranks second.
Matched my top ten but order a little different. Great video. I found myself smiling at each new picture that came up.
Thank you for including Maxwell!
Excellent selection. Every one of these people produced ideas of extraordinary beauty. On my list: Boltzmann, and Emmy Noether.
To put Bohr at 9 feels like a tremendous disservice - his remarkable ability to also send/influence his students and friends in the right directions (a list including Pauli, Heisenberg, Dirac, Meitner, Landau, Kramer’s and Usmani) arguably makes his contribution to 20th century physics as valuable or even moreso than Einstein’s - an incredibly important part of a scientist’s skill set is to provide useful discussion with other scientists, and Bohr was perhaps the best physicist of all time for this.
I agree! Bohrs contribution to the understanding of quantum mechanics is also very overlooked today! His complimentarity inerpertatione is one of finest to still exist.
Thankfully this comment came early on in the list. The world knows what we owe to Niels Bohr.
Bohr sucks, his hydrogen atom model is a joke, even his assistant Heisenberg is greater than him
Completely agree with your statement.
just a good teacher achieve so little in physics
The list of names are absolutely OK. Though I think that Einstein, Planck and most importantly Heisenberg stood out significantly from this already noble set of people.
Neils Bohr also can be included in the stood out physicists.
@Amogh Sharma Yeah but Einstein is the father of modern physics
Erwin Schrodinger literally invented wave function which is base of quantum field theory
Newton: oh please..
Heisenberg's work on the energy and "structure" of the nucleus was corrected by Ettore Majorana, so if he is number 4, where is Majorana?
I think archimedes deserves a spot on this list..
A little note on Wolfgang Pauli : my thesis adviser had to take physics lectures of Pauli. He told me that Pauli did not clean the blackboard
when it was fully covered with formulas . Instead he would continue with green chalk on top of everything and later with red chalk.
One can guess how difficult it was to follow his very advanced lectures.
Interesting!
Thank you for these pieces of fantastic jobs done.
Thank you 👌👌👌❤️❤️❤️
What about experimentalists? Could you make a video for them as well?
Would absolutely love one with experimentalists! Julian swinger and murray gell-mann largely made some of the largest leaps by tying together ideas with experiments and those two are top all time for me over some of the only theorists
Do you know about Landau's logarithmic scale of physicists? :)
Where is the great Stephen hawking and galileo ?
People commented that Einstein, Planck and Heisenberg stand out, & in some ways they do. But one person stands above all....Newton. Sir Isaac Newton is the father of modern science, is head neck and shoulders above all other scientists! Newton, the greatest Scientist in history!
1. His discovery of the composition of light laid the foundation for Optics!
2. In Mechanics his 3 Laws of Motion resulted in the formulation of the Law of universal Gravitation!
3. In Mathematics he discovered Calculus!
4. Newton wrote and published Principia Mathematica in 1687, which is the most important book ever written in the history of Science!
Newton founded these 4 things, if he had founded just one he would still be classified as one of the greatest, founding all 4 makes Newton the Greatest Scientist ever!
Newton is not the father of modern science, he’s more like the father of physics, the title of father of modern physics goes to Einstein, because he is the person at the helm of both of the two theories used most often in modern physics
Einstein is the one who overthrown Newtown law of gravitation.. Einstein's theories ranges from universe level (general relativity) to Quantum level ( photo electric effect ) .. Newtow's absolute time principle was also overthrown by Einstein ...
Although Newton laid the foundation for further research in the field of theoretical physics, it was Einstein, Plank, Maxwell, and Bohr that developed and discovered the further minute details of astrophysics and quantum physics. And I believe the most contribution was done by Einstein of all and this is why he should have been on the 1st position rather than the 2nd.
Too bad that it is Galileo the father of physics. A list is, by definition, subjective. A neater way to put it is to provide classes. Dirac, Bohr, Einstein are all equally important in my view for example, etc. Having said that what is the purpose of listing them in a column ?
Science is Experiment.
Science as use and practice of the "Experimental Method" is due to Galileo Galilei and not to Isaac Newton. This applies to all Sciences, not just Physics. Newton said: "If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants"
Anyway, I agree with you about the other points you have written.
I believe that someone who, among other achievements, tried to measure the speed of light in the 16th century deserve his place in the list. Galileo Galilei is the founder of modern physics.
He is one the greatest physicist to ever live but he wasn't much of a theoretical physicist compared to others in this list.
He's more like an astronomer than a physicist.
Micheal faraday deserves a place in top 10 for sure.
It was a great idea to ranke the famous theoretical physicists of the 20th century. However, I think that "Enrico Fermi" deserves to be in the list. He left behind a huge heritage in both, experimental and theoretical physics which seems to be "rare" and "insane". It's a miracle to switch from a laboratory to the world of mathematics and to contribute substantially to each one of them with the same amount of interest and curiosity. He have derived the Fermi-Dirac statistics a few months before Dirac, he have derived also the Golden Rule named after him in his proper way and independentally, and the half-integer spin particles hold his name, 'Fermions'. He was the father of Beta-decay theory - the theory opening the door to the unification of Glashow-Weinberg-Salam. He was the developer of the nuclear reactors and control of chain reaction he worked on even before Meitner and Otto Hahn. Without forgetting his theoretical proof of the existence of neutrinos assumed by Pauli in 1930. During his last years, he worked on the meson theory and the pion-Nucleon interaction. I think "Fermi" should be in the list and that for many reasons.
Thanks for your interesting work 💡
I think he was considered as an experimental physicist. Lets wait for the experimentalist top 10: I think Fermi & Galileo are top 2.
@@wellesmorgado4797 He was a great theoretical physicist as well. If you look at his legacy you won't think that he was an experimentalist. To be honest, Fermi was an exception until these days and he deserves to belong to both of lists.
@@elhassanafddas7946 Yeah, I agree with you. But I believe that our host did not include him in the theoretical physicists list because Fermi was considered an experimentalist. If you care about my opinion, I think it is one of the most useless things to split physicists into two niches like that. I have been in contact with great experimental physicists and these guys knew as much theory as pretty much any theoretical guy. There are great physicists, not great exp/theo physicists.
@@wellesmorgado4797 There are 2 possibilities; either the admin knows already about him and considered him as "likely" an experimentalist, or he forgot him. So it will be useful if we talk in the general case, because anyway this video is still a personal choice.
On the other hand, I do not argue about how far an experimentalist could know about theory, because these days they have to and theorists as well understand what's going on in the lab. One is a complement of the other, no matter from what angle we see it. What I am talking about is to know theories, understanding them, developing new ones with the same amount of accuracy a "pure" theoretical could do. And this is not the end, because the man worked on a crucial experimental task during 1940s; creating the atomic bomb. It will be a mistake to compare such case in the beginning of the modern physics with any one else in the 21th century. As it may be clear, the circumstances and the challenges weren't the same as today. Working at the frontier was very complicated at the time and by intuition it can be seen as miraculous.
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With those names I would use a different order as: Einstein, Newton, Dirac, Maxwell, Schrödinger, Planck, Heisenberg, Bohr, Pauli, Feynman.
Quite agree. Einstein should be at the top. I say that even though I am English! 😂
Newton is greatest physicist of all time and second is Albert Einstein.
@@roberthayter157 how?
Schrodinger first formulated both relativistic and non relativistic wave equations,lmfao.
Dirac should be placed below of schrodinger
@@motichandmotichand1051 Nope. Schrodinger's relativistic equation (discovered later independently by by Klein and Gordon), does not properly describe 1/2 spin particles. So no point in giving credit for that. Dirac's equation introduces spinors (new mathematical objects never considered before), explains electron's magnetic moment, predicts antiparticles and correctly predicts relativistic corrections to the atomic spectra.
Where is Galileo - the founder of modern theoretical Physics? I would put JCM and Einstein on the same shoulders - those of Galileo. Those three predicted so much from so little - Occam emrazored.
Galileo was probably considered as an experimentalist. As well as Fermi. Otherwise Fermi might be there also.
Isaac Newton is the father of theoretical Physics and not Galileo. ✍️
@@sundayokirie9842 How do you work that out? Galileo used a gedanken experiment to work out that objects of different masses fell at the same rate under gravity near the earth's surface. If that is not theoretical physics then neither is Einstein's work.
From your reply, it quite clear that you're mixing things up. Galileo was an experimental Physicist just like Michael Faraday. They carry out experiments to probe natural phenomena and make certain predictions based on their experiments. That's not the case for Einstein and Newton. Newton introduced the usage of Mathematics to explain Natural Phenomena (he was the first). Faraday was an experimentalist, his experiments gave us the understanding of electromagnetism but it was James Clark Maxwell gave us a mathematical interpretation of electromagnetism and thereby predicted Electromagnetic waves and its speed. ✍️
@@sundayokirie9842 Are you unaware of his key gedanken experiment?
Incomplete list without the father of nuclear physics Earnest Rutherford who actually split the atom.
He was mostly an experimental physicist that's why I guess he is not here in the list..
I think he was experimentalis physicist not theoritical
Excuse me, I think it was Earnest Gustav Lawrence who practically split the atom.
If we can consider Enrico Fermi also theoretical physicist, and I think we can, he shouldn’t be missing in the top 10. The same I can’t say about Newton
Three equally towering achievements in physics around the turn of the 20th century. Quantum physics and relativity are well represented here. and given much media attention. But, the third is what Einstein thought could never be overthrown even after quantum physics and relativity are eventually replaced: statistical mechanics. It never gets any love, even on this list. And its implications, especially that of thermodynamics is as equally profound as the other two. Planck and Einstein did some. Einstein used its methods to describe Brownian motion. Anyways, the physicist Boltzman should be on this list.
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*MY LIST*
15. S chandrasekhar: his approach totally revolutionised astrophysics and his limit eventually was the responsible for the explanation that what are black holes and how black Holes are form? Prior to him, physicists thinks that suns,when they dies(or loses all fuels),they became dwarf star but his work predicted that starts can become neutron star too and explained that Black holes are nothing but form of starts.
14. Richard feymann(for his fundamental contributions to Quantum electrodynamics)
13. SN BOSE (his work predicted bosons and 5th state of matter)
12. De broglie (proposed wave particle duality for all matters)
11. Heindric Lorentz ( his works arefundamental for special and general theory of relativity and even for quantum theory).
10. Max born (he formulated probability density function and matrix machanics which are very important for quantum theory)
9. Wolfgang pauli ( his spin theory forms the basis for the structure of mattar)
8. Max plank (discovered E=hv; this work was foundation for quantum theory)
7. Neil bohr( for the structure of atom)
6. Paul dirac(his dirac equation predicted anti matter and considered on par with Newton, Maxwell and eistien's works)
5. werner Heisenberg(his uncertainty principle and matrix machanics are base of quantum physics)
4. Erwin Schrodinger (he invented wave function and wave equation which exists at heart of quantum physics and quantum field theory)
3. James clark Maxwell ( theoritically predicted electromagnetic waves and Maxwell equation was precursor for special theory of relativity while electromagnetic waves are used every day in our life.
Electromagnetic waves are responsible for our internet, televisions and every wireless related gadgets)
2.albert Eistien(discovered special, general theory of relativity and proposed wave particle duality for light and predicted bosons by reading the paper of sn bose)
1. Sir issac Newton ( he invented calculus and whatever humanity achieved in last 2 centuries was not possible without the discovery of calculus)
How about Stephen Hawking???? He should be on EVERYONE'S short list of the best theoretical physicists of all time (or as the title credits say THEORICAL physicists).
@@pinedelgado4743well there is a problem with him.some stuff he stated in his paper don't make sense and they aren't understood by anyone,matter worse now that he is dead
You missed out Arnold Summerfield. He trained quite a few of the ones mentioned here.
I think with the name of sir Isaac Newton you forget to write "sir"
Christiaan Huygens was missing from the list imo
this is a top 10 i can get behind
i feel like someone like Gauß should also be included in the list. Great acheivements in both physics and math
Perhaps a top-10 mathematical physicists could include people like Gauss, von Neumann, Riemann etc etc
@@guff9567 What the fuck? If this is his name what am I supposed to change? Just use google i guess
@@guff9567 Yes but his name is spelled like Gauß. Btw whats even your problem with the "ß"?
@@guff9567 * In your alphabet, but it in Gauß alphabet
@@guff9567 Sorry but I have to ask: Are you american? (I really just need the info, no blaming or shaming, just out of curiousity)
Good list, but perhaps give the likes of Boltzmann and Ehrenfest a bit more love
Good list. Of course everyone knows better as evidenced by the comments. But as we know from physics every quantum event has a different measurer so everyone has his own truth. Nevertheless, I stand with the author: Well done, good list.
Lenard , Haber ,planck , all aside me what a lovely day I can remember..
What about Sheldon Cooper?
Sheldon Cooper is a crazy man😂😂
Einstein is the GOAT
Newton was born in 16 century and Albert Einstein was born in 20th century.. during Newton time education and scientific research and equipment were not that good... Newton was the greatest scientist ever born on this planet
Newton is greatest physicist of all time.and Einstein is second.this list is right.
Newton x Eisntein: shades of R. Madrid x Barcelona.
Without Hawking?
Boltzmann and Curie are the ones I miss most
Which Curie? Pierre? Marie?
Which Curie? Pierre? Marie?
Nice list, but it’s missing fermi, and Bohr, should be much near number 1
Where is Chen-Ning Yang? He created non-abelian gauge theorem, solved Ising model and won a noble prize for the work parity non-conservation of week interaction.
Also, you should not forget Landau.
Bohr and Pauli are great but they should not appear on the list.
I have mixed feelings too, yet, some concepts and ideas were more mind blowing if you take on account the time they were formulated. The CPT simetry and all that stuff is well placed in qft and qm i think Noether deserves more credit, the concept of symetries is way more mind blowing
@@omardiaz6255 I agree with you but Noether is an excellent mathematician.
0. The Unknown - who puts it all together and takes mankind to next level! Let's call him or her - John or Jane Toe...
Here is the et missing in the title.
to see Bohr in number 9, you can only imagine the monsters that are coming...
How u can miss great hawking and boson
THANK YOU, AYUSH SINGH!!!! I was wondering why no one here in these comments mentioned Stephen Hawking!
@@pinedelgado4743 🙏🙏👍👍👍
Where is Galileo
He's been dead for a while.
You may missed Kepler
Kepler was a great astronomer.
This order is more chronological than “top” in some sense. What about Weinberg and Witten. The work of the physicists in videos is foundational not necessarily “top”.
Obviously the physicists of past would top this list in that case.
Weinberg, yes
Witten, no.
Good list, but rather obvious)
Reasoning for Dirac behind Heisenberg?
Thought the same
@@itsamemario7823 Heisenberg was plain ugly, and has a swastika name
Heisenberg almost flunked his own doctorate. He was terrible at some basic physics reasoning, such as understanding the neutron mean-free-path in U & its relation to the critical mass, for which we should be extremely grateful, since he thought that an atomic bomb would need tons of material to be made.
That's bcoz Heisenberg's approach was totally strange and was not built on ideas of earlier works (much like satyendra bose whose work predicted the existence of bosons)
Dirac equations,even thou,has been compared on par with Newton and eistien's work but still it is more generalized form of Schrodinger equations and infact The Dirac equation is superficially similar to the Schrödinger equation for a massive free particle.
Half of the work was actually done by erwin Schrodinger (similar to the bohr's model where half the work done by Ernest Rutherford)
But Schrodinger failed to explain the solution of negative energies and probabilities in his non relativistic and and relativistic(KG equation) wave equation.
He then rejected the idea of negative energies and probabilities
Dirac solved the problem of negative probabilities however the negative energies were still concern but he solved that too and predicted the existence of anti particles.
Note:- it's a common misconception in history of science that the dirac equation predicted anti particles. Actually paul dirac predicted anti particles.
Anti matters can be predicted with KG and Schrodinger wave equation too.
@@wellesmorgado4797he was pseudo scientific as well. But ur literally mocking him like ur way more smarter than him. fact is that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle forms the basis of quantum mechanics along with Schrodinger's wave machanism.
Galileo and Lorentz
If you knew how to split an Atom..and release relentless energy…and you couldn’t even see what it was to actually split…that’s Genius…
My all time favourite physicist is Albert Einstein, due to his discovery of gravity equation G=8πT, which defeated Newton's gravity.
Bohr should be up there in the first few. John Stewart Bell should be on the list.
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Paul Dirac is # 3 after Einstein and Newton.
The authors forgot to insert Poincare' and Lorentz.
What does quantum physics explain?
Quantum physics is a subject that explains dualistic behavior of quantum particles (photons/electrons).
I think you missed dr. Abdus Salam.
I'll keep Einstein no. 1. Missing on the this list who should be on this, is American Physicist Maury Gell-mann who was simply amazing. Perhaps a no. 11
Im sorry but in terms of contribution to physics and math, einstein could never be in front of newton
@@franciscopereira2993, it's a classic argument. Newton is indeed considered many, but it was Einstein that perfected Newton. In 1915, GTR was indeed considered a great sacralidge but none the less, cemented AES place in history. As Newton arguably creates calculus, it was Einstein who crafted the complex math and feild equations needed to validate the covariance set out by the theory. You would certainly agree they are either one or two.
Newton was born in 16 century and Albert Einstein was born in 20th century.. during Newton time education and scientific research and equipment were not that good... Newton was the greatest scientist ever born on this planet
Newton is no.1 this list is right.you wrong Mr Neal Rothschild 🤣😂.
Stephen Hawking and Peter Higgs if you would like?
@Ali Mirala 1000 best certainly. 100 probably not.
Missing in that list is Michael Faraday. Without the concept of a "field", physics would be nothing but a Rube Goldberg machine.
O come on dude!
By the why, where are all the ancient mathematician? Without them we wouldnt have any math... 🙄
wasn't really much of a theoretical physicist though
@@kcdchopin8152 Perhaps, but his concept of a field was a necessary and inescapable ingredient for all the theoretical physics that was developed afterward. And so, just with that concept of a "field", he belongs with all the great ones. Can anyone think of physics without the concept of a "field'? I can't.
I love Faraday, but this is a lost of the greatest theoretical physicists.
Hard to compare physicists of different time periods. I mean how do you compare newton to a bunch of 19th and 20th century physicists? I would have put Einstein and Heisenberg on top but that's just a matter of how to evaluate historical relativism.
As the title rightfully suggests theoretical
It is impossible to converge on one list. But I agree with the poeple on this list. Can anyone do it for mathematicians.
the top 2 are easy(gauss and euhler) the rest are harder.
Sir S N Bose deserves the list
Place the great philosopher and physicist, outstanding rock musician, creator of the quantum theory of gravity Marley Bob on this list.
No C N Yang?
Neils bohr deserves higher position than 9th in this list. He should have been on 5 or 6 i believe.
Switch Bohr with Heisenberg. That guy was taught by Bohr
The list of names is correct but it is ordered in a completely wrong way. Heisenberg ahead of Bohr? Incredible!
Heisenberg created quantum mechanics
@@ramganeshtttt7608
Heisenberg was one of the contributors to Quantum Mechanics. Not the only one.
Bohr, Schrödinger, Pauli, Dirac, de Broglie, Fermi made substantial and notable contributions to the same theory during the golden age.
@@mauriziomammuccini6657for ur info, quantum mechanics is divided into two parts one is old quantum theory and 2nd is new QM. new quantum mechanics starts with Schrodinger, Heisenberg and paul dirac.
Neil bohr clearly stated Heisenberg's achievement as greater one than himself and he was the one who nominated Heisenberg for nobel prize.
Age of old quantum theory is 1900-1925.
Some peoples says that new QM starts with de broglie however he was himself in opposition of fundamental principles of QM like quantum superposition and uncertainty principle like Eistien without which Modern QM has no meaning
the order is absolutely right.
Where is Boltzmann?
you missed the top 20 before this list
Also democritos from ancient greece the atomic philosopher.
This is always difficult. Galileo is missing, where would he go? Also Rutherford and Curie? They ticked a lot of experimental and theoretical boxes.
Curie? Married Marie and Pierre? Yes?
@@grzegorzlagut8917 She was certainly one of the most impressive Scientists of all time. She won two Nobels in two different disciplines, Chemistry and Physics. Also bear in mind the opportunities that women had in 1904 compared to today.
@@pinball1970 They together discover rad and polon in 1898 year, not only Marie Curie, but also she husband Pierre Curie have Nobel Prize physics with Antoine Henri Becquerel, witch discover radioactivity in 1896 year, not Marie Curie! This is true!
Bohr’s first name is Niels, not Neils…
I can’t disagree with the top three…but I’d have Dirac at 4, I think.
I'd have Dirac at 1.
@@AndDiracisHisProphet I hope you’re just joking lol, Dirac is certainly an incredible scientist, but definitely not on par with Newton and Einstein
@@James-gn6ig No I am not joking. Dirac is clearly the most important physicist of the 20th century. Einstein was certainly an incredible scientist but is pretty overrated.
@@AndDiracisHisProphet Lol Einstein literally discovered the second pillar of modern physics. maybe he had some help but he did almost all the work on gr. I haven’t seen a person who would rank dirac over einstein. dirac certainly top 10 but not on par with newton and einstein
@@AndDiracisHisProphet, I wouldn’t fault a person for placing Dirac at 1, but I think any of the top three in this video plus Dirac could reasonably lay claim to that title. Most people don’t realize how much Dirac did for foundations of modern physics.
Most are in the 20th century
The list misses Enrico Fermi.
Where is Thomas Alva Edison in this list. Should add his name in top three scientiest,physcist.
Great video!! Great men--ALL of them!! But, why isn't Stephen Hawking in this list???!!! :o :o :o
Because he's nowhere near as important as the men featured. Maybe in the future, his theories will be proved.
Laplace, Lorentz and Gauss probably also deserve a mention
Where is nicole tesla ????????
Where is Galileo?
Which century highly advance theoretical immortal infinite foundations Clearty
Sorry but....Lagrange? Galileo? They are much more Important than Pauli, Feynman ...
Pauli was a pioneer and in my opinion one of the greatest. Without his discoveries, much of the progress in condensed matter physics would probably not have been made because of the exclusion principle. A case could be made for leaving out Feynman but that‘s also hard since his work on QED was quite revolutionary and computing Feynman diagrams in perturbation theory of QCD is still a very active field in high energy physics
I think Faynman was rather important. But I agree with galileo. Also where is Hawkin?
Why
Newton
Einstein regardless
Newton was born in 16 century and Albert Einstein was born in 20th century.. during Newton time education and scientific research and equipment were not that good... Newton was the greatest scientist ever born on this planet
@@newtonian4554 I agree with that
Such lists are pointless. It is better just to remember each person for his or her contributions without trying to rank them or decide who may be excluded or included.
Newton 🔥🔥🔥
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Approved time is infinite anti-clockwise and clockwise
Phd based on research and labour
Cannot approve this list without Landau.
IMO, Dirac should be No. 3.
Pointless. Newton, really? Where is Lorentz? Even Einstein said he was smarter than him, the godfather of them all, including Bohr. Where is Currie? Well, Nevermind, another set put together by UK/USA people.. was to be expected
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However Curie was not a theoretical physicist
Many indians have contributions too
Physicists be carrying humanity on their backs.
I prefer Libonitz notation.
Einstein disproved Newton's concept of absolute toime and space, and corrected his gravitational law. How can he rank below Newton?
Newton solved a problem that had existed for thousands of years, understanding the motion of objects in the sky. In the process he invented modern math and physics. Einstein solved a problem that had existed for 30 years, why is the speed of light constant, and used the math of Newton, Lorentz and Riemann.
@@allandavis6116 Even so, I still rank Einstein higher, but, as with so many things, it's a matter of opinion, you might well be right.
Anyone who puts Feynman on a list of the top ten really doesn't understand his role in the development of quantum electrodynamics. He came rather late to the game. After Dirac, Heisenberg, Pauli, Jordan, Fermi and many others found that they weren't able to calculate observables to arbitrary precision, Bethe proposed a method for removing the infinities. This was successful developed by Tomonaga, Schwinger, Feynman and Dyson. This is hardly enough to qualify him as a top ten theoretical physicist. I would rank him number one at self-promotion however and probably appeals to the general public far above his achievement. So many other physicists belong on this list before Feynman. A top pick would be someone like Boltzmann. He is a giant in physics compared to Feynman
thankyou for this. You said what I was thinking. While he is amazing, I don't have him in the top 10. Top 20 yes.