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Re:Murray Gell-Mann Has Died by I_complete_me on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:34PM (#20003653)
A great man has left us. RIP.
Re:Murray Gell-Mann Has Died by return1 on Friday May 24, 2019 @03:09PM (#20004437)
I wonder how many such monumental "brand name" physicists are still alive.
Re:Murray Gell-Mann Has Died by gjm11 on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:50PM (#20005166)
We still have Witten, Weinberg, 't Hooft, Yang&Lee. Also Nobelists but (in my utterly prejudiced view) less monumental: Rubbia, Glashow, Wilczek, Thorne. Not Nobelists but arguably in the monumental category: Dyson, maybe Penrose.
Re:Murray Gell-Mann Has Died by dmurray on Friday May 24, 2019 @09:10PM (#20006533)
For "brand recognition" surely Peter Higgs is at the top, along with maybe Dyson. I'm not qualified to opine on how his work compares to the others.
Re:Murray Gell-Mann Has Died by evanb on Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:01AM (#20007853)
I don't think Higgs is really widely considered monumental in the same was as those other people. He had one good idea (at essentially the same time as Brout, Englert, Kibble, ...) which got his name attached. But I am a professional physicist and know none of his other work, in contrast to Dyson, Weinberg, Witten, t' Hooft, ...
Re:Murray Gell-Mann Has Died by graphpapa on Sunday May 26, 2019 @09:56AM (#20014944)
Higgs is absolutely a more familiar name than the others, and stain too, whether you think his contributions were proportional to that recognition or not
Re:Murray Gell-Mann Has Died by evanb on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:58PM (#20017456)
That he has greater name recognition amongst lay people doesn't make him a monumental physicist.
Re:Murray Gell-Mann Has Died by levlandau on Friday May 24, 2019 @09:11PM (#20006536)
PW Anderson (Nobel Laureate, 95 yrs old) Condensed Matter Physics legend
Re:Murray Gell-Mann Has Died by spodek on Friday May 24, 2019 @09:50PM (#20006636)
Schrodinger's cat, maybe.
Re:Murray Gell-Mann Has Died by lovemenot on Saturday May 25, 2019 @03:16AM (#20007569)
Nope. I checked.
Re:Murray Gell-Mann Has Died by dplavery92 on Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:42PM (#20011645)
Maybe Susskind. I'm not sure what definition of "monumental" we're going with, but he's surely "brand name."

Maldacena seems like a good consideration. Maybe Alan Guth.