After Einstein, who do you think is the greatest physicist and why[mention that guys achievement]?
2006-08-15 00:24:29 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
sorry, please mention only those guys who were born after Einstein
2006-08-15 00:30:56 · update #1
People say its Edward Witten - a brilliant theoretical physicist (Einstein too was a theoretical physicist).
Witten's been working on the String theory and he is best known for having integrated the 5 separate string theories into one single theory which he christened M-theory (why M? - thats something that only Mr Witten knows).
The reason he's not so popular is that many physicists do not like the string theory as none of its predictions are verifiable as of now - so its considered to be just Mathematics with no physical evidence.
The day they are able to prove experimentally that the String theory is on the right path, Ed Witten will probably be a household name.
2006-08-15 00:38:21 · answer #1 · answered by RM 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greatest Physicist
2016-11-04 07:33:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
rohit7mehra is correct.
In his bestseller "The Elegant Universe", Columbia University physicist Brian Greene writes that Witten is "widely regarded as Einstein's successor in the role of the world's greatest living physicist."
(Einstein was 1879 - 1955)
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951 and still alive) founder of M-theory, researcher of string theory and quantum field theory.
So far he's gotten a MacArthur Grant (1982), a Fields Medal (1990), and the National Medal of Science (2004). Pope Benedict XVI also appointed Witten as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (2006). He was TIME magazine's 100 most influential people of 2004. Witten has the highest h-index of any living physicist.
(H-index is a calculation based on distribution of citations received by a given researcher's publications. It is explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index)
2006-08-15 01:08:34 · answer #3 · answered by maî 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After the generation of Einstein,Stephen Hawking.
2006-08-15 00:37:47 · answer #4 · answered by meno25 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are soo many good ones...how about Richard Feynman - he won the nobel prize for Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) which was a huge step in unifying classical physics and quantum physics. To be great in physics (in my opinion), you also need to be a good communicator - and Feynman was articulate, funy and extremely creative. He is remebered for many achievements appreciable by the "average Joe" - chair of the Challenger Commision, author, subject of several best-selling books, bongo player. The legacy of his teaching and writing will live on as perhaps his greatest contribution, enabling hundreds of thousands to understand what few had the intellect to understand previously. In the physics community, "Feynman diagrams" are THE way to describe QED, even still.
2006-08-15 01:08:12 · answer #5 · answered by socrmom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stephen Hawking.
2006-08-15 00:28:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
James Clerk Maxwell, Maxwells equations! What a legend!
2006-08-15 00:32:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would say James Maxwell. Maxwell's Equations are truly remarkable. The first insight of relativity.
2006-08-15 01:45:49 · answer #8 · answered by pedrovrl 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably Isaac Newton. Formulated theory of gravity, motion laws and invented calculus (curse him!!)
2006-08-15 00:28:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
William Shockley
Inventor of the transistor.
2006-08-15 00:46:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋