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Re:Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988) by AnimalMuppet on Friday February 21, 2025 @07:40PM (#43134881)
Einstein for sure. For the rest: I'm not sure that they're clearly ahead of Feynman. I'm not sure they're behind, either. To me, they seem to kind of be in a cluster.
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Re:Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988) by pessimist on Friday February 21, 2025 @08:33PM (#43135195)
Apart from Einstein, Heisenberg, Dirac, Pauli, Bohr and Fermi are clearly ahead in depth and breadth of contribution. Post-war it's less clear, but IMO Steven Weinberg and Murray Gell Mann are probably greater.
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