School Physicists

Sting

I think that's what undergraduate years are for: the hone your style of thinking.

Chemistry makes everybody question how they are being educated. It's far from a useless subject, but you always ask "why must I learn it?"

Although I didn't grow up in a Physics lab, I did read as often as I could and I remembered reading about electron orbitals. In middle school, I remember the teachers talking about orbitals and such and she drew a picture of it. After class, I walked up to her and go, "but I thought atoms didn't have well defined shells. I thought it was more like a "cloud" or something." I didn't mention this in class, but out of respect, I went after class. She looked at me and started chewing me out for undermining her authority.

So much for my "scientific" thinking.

arcnets

Underminig her authority [g)]. "Hey kid! Fear is stronger than curiosity. Be a good boy: stay ignorant!". Disgusting...
Sometimes I think that most people who have heard about science only at school practically still live in the middle-ages (when it comes to an understanding of nature...)

Sting

Yep, I know teachers who are like that. Some of them are really arrogant and want to appear "smarter" than the students.

To get back on topic: Josiah Williard Gibbs. What's vector analysis without Gibbs?

arcnets

Yes. Plus, I left out some obvious ones:

- Hooke
- Kelvin
- Huyghens

FZ+

Perhaps Dirac and Schrodinger ought be in there somewhere?

Sting

Don't forget Pauli and De Broglie

PRodQuanta

Yes,
Dirac
Schrodinger
Hawking
Zeilinger