Who is your favorite physicist and why?

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Wow, by what criteria do you guys choose the physicists? Everyone mentioned here (apart from Buzz Lightyear) has done a great contribution to the physics we know today. Do you choose them because of the topics they studied or excelled at? In that case, it's probably Faraday or Thomson for me.

Other than that, Eratosthenes seems to be a cool guy. He's idea of how to measure Earth's diameter, in my opinion, is quite an achievement for the era he lived in.

Or do you choose them because of their personalities and scandals caused?
 
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Dirac.
 

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