Who is your favorite physicist and why?

[Jimmy Snyder]

How about Cab Calloway for his work in acoustics:

For every heighdy-heighdy-hi, there is an equal and opposite heighdy-heighdy-ho.

 

[B. Elliott]

For me it's the physicist, engineer, inventor, visionary and showman... Nikola Tesla.

 

[mheslep]

Since everyone avoided making the generic, trendy answer:

Enstein.

Mostly because he was a humanitarian, but also because of his unique contributions to science.

Ok yes he had great scientific contributions. He was also a self centered jerk. Abandoned one child completely, neglected the rest of his family. Read Isaacson. Screw Einstein.

 

[animalcroc]

Schrodinger all the way!

the English spelling is Schroedinger. The 'oe' replaces the 'o' with the umlaut.

 

[Kurdt]

the English spelling is Schroedinger. The 'oe' replaces the 'o' with the umlaut.

Which is hideous and should be banned because the guys name is Schrödinger. Its not too difficult.

 

[mbrmbrg]

Which is hideous and should be banned because the guys name is Schrödinger. Its not too difficult.

OK, how'd you do that?

 

[moe darklight]

î†'s p®é††¥ éåsÿ, âç†üåll¥ .

 

[Kurdt]

You can use Microsoft Alt-key codes if you use IE. ö is Alt+0246. You can find lists of alt-key codes all over the web. Here is one:

http://www.frontpagewizard.com/use_alt_keys.asp

 

[mbrmbrg]

Šooo... Whoa, that is so majorly cool!

גם*עברית

No way. No way no way no way.

Thank you very kindly... COOL!

 

[greeniq]

Im upset guys

Hei guys

I think you all forgot Max Planck, he is the greatest physicist ever, since he was the one who started to think in a new way. and if he did not think like that, nowadays we have no technology at all.

IQ

 

[TVP45]

Since it's favorite and not best, I go for Eric Rogers.

 

[TeTeC]

Chuck Norris.

 

[wsttiger]

Richard Feynman and Einstein ...

because of there physical intuition.

Physics, for me, distinguishes itself by the fact that it's based on simple pictures. Sure, math is the language of physics, but I enjoy thinking about simple pictures. I believe AE and RF excelled in this area.

 

[Dr Transport]

My two mentors R.P. Hurst and F.L. Madarasz.

But if I had to pick a hot one, Lisa Randall at Harvard...

 

[QGravity]

Einstein, Dirac, Feynman, Schwinger, Witten.

 

[AFG34]

Newton!

 

[jobyts]

mgb_phys

He/she pretty much answers all my physics questions...:)

 

[Oerg]

mgb_phys

He/she pretty much answers all my physics questions...:)

Doc AI for me too

 

[alxm]

The ones with lopsided hair!

http://hem.passagen.se/asystem/PH/Gallery/Dirac.jpg
Dirac

Landau

Coincidence?

 

[dx]

My favorites:

1. Albert Einstein
2. Niels Bohr
3. Richard Feynman
4. Lev Landau
5. William Burke

 

[Karl G.]

Hmmm... I can't choose between Schrodinger and his womanizing or Dirac and his taciturn nature.

 

[mgb_phys]

Hmmm... I can't choose between Schrodinger and his womanizing or Dirac and his taciturn nature.

If you choose Schrodinger - does he collapse?

 

[BobG]

Fermi no doubt.

If Enrico Fermi is so great, why did they name such a small unit of measure after him. You almost have to feel bad for the guy when you hear men bragging that they're 150 trillion fermis.

I wonder who has the largest unit of measure named after them.

 

[misgfool]

My female colleague. At the moment.

 

[DrummingAtom]

It changes quite a bit, but currently..

1. Feynman
2. Maxwell
3. William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
4. Einstein

 

[Davide86]

Fermi and (a step lower) Feynman

 

[LowlyPion]

I wonder who has the largest unit of measure named after them.

Buzz Lightyear ?

 

[Davide86]

If Enrico Fermi is so great, why did they name such a small unit of measure after him. You almost have to feel bad for the guy when you hear men bragging that they're 150 trillion fermis.

I wonder who has the largest unit of measure named after them.

Maybe Barnes

 

[xxChrisxx]

For me it's the physicist, engineer, inventor, visionary and showman... Nikola Tesla.

Damn stright Tesla was the man! Damn that bastard Edison.
EDIT: although he's technically more of an engineer, i don't care.

 

[Stratosphere]

1. Einstein
2. Newton