Who is your favorite physicist and why?

[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

 

[kbaumen]

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?

 

[Enjoicube]

Dirac.