Who is the greatest living Physicist?
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hard question to answer.  What kind of physicist?  Because Stephen Hawking is undoubtably a great and popular theorectical physicist but theres others who have made great contributions like Edward Witten, who in fact has been dubbed by some as "the greatest living physicist."  So there are great physicists each with great contributions... It's all about perspective
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Most definitely a SCIENTIST!!  Sacred Geometry! the Golden Mean! 12 around 1!!  He is truly the Divine Architect!!!
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I don't know about the biggest, but hands down, the best is D.B. Cooper.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.B._Cooper
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I was going to say the exact same.  Ghandi!  Fantastic leader, interesting journey and a lot of things to find to research him.  \nAlso Nelson Mandala, he's still alive today.  Not sure if that's criteria or not...\nAlso, Albert Einstein!  He's lead an interesting life to say the least, and theres plenty of ways you could write an essay on him\nGood luck!
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Walter Sickert\n\nI recommend the below book, very informative and interesting.
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I don't think you can pick one, but if forced to it would almost unquestionably have to be Aristotle because without him science as we think of it would not exist (well, it would because some other guy like Aristotle would have come along).
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Who's Steven Hokings?  It's Stephen Hawkings.   I'd say that it's tough to say who is smarter, but Einstein has made more advances for the common man then Hawkings.
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Louise Cyr according to some sources is considered the greatest strongman of all time. \n\nhe passed away some years back but his feats of strength were trully ledgendary.
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my favorite is quantum physics, it explains so much about the way our universe works right down to the atomic level
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Henri Becquerel. \n\nGlenn T. Seaborg. \n\nMarie and Pierre Curie\n\nEnrico Fermi\n\nIrene Joliot-Curie\n\nFrederik Joliot\n\nErnest Rutherford\n\nHarold Urey\n\nand literally thousands and thousands more.
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Algernon Swinburne\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne
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Alive or dead?  Alive - Takeru Kobayashi (hot dog eating champion), because of his superhuman ability to consume his body weight in hot dogs. Dead - Thomas Edison, because then I would be smart enough to put a patent on the filament light bulb and be richer than Bill Gates.
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It is reputed to have been Lord Kelvin.  The Michelson-Morley experiment (to find the true reference frame of the universe - the failure of which led to Einstein's discovery of special relativity) and the solution to the blackbody radiation equation (which led to the "ultraviolet catastrophe" and Planck's discovery of quantum mechanics) was all that was left, other than extending the constants to additional decimal places.\n\nHowever, Feynman claims this is more myth than fact.
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Impossible to compare. Both were the preeminent scientists of their generations. Einstein certainly knew a lot More, but he had the advantage of having Newton & many others shoulders to stand on.
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Luis Walter Alvarez \n\nThe Nobel Prize in Physics 1968 \n\n"for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis"
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Hmmm!  tie between Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein.  Simply mention their names...
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Richard Feynman was the greatest physics teacher ever, whereas Einstein was brilliant - he wasn't the best of teachers.\n\nPS Many of Feynman’s lectures are available on audio book and video.  Check them out at your local library or online at Amazon.com