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Article #7721Re: Einstein, Dirac and so on....
From: Bill Hobba
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:04
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:04
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"Franco" <englishenglish@tin.it> wrote in message news:i9TEc.560761$rM4.23324945@news4.tin.it... > Most of people handle Einstein as he was the most physicist. > > I can't help thinking that most "that" people, IGNORE the history of > physics. > > For instance, there are a lot of physicists. Paul Dirac in my opinion is > better than Einstein. Of course that's only my opinion. > > But I can't stand that most of people do not know who Paul Dirac was. I think you will find that around here knowledgeable posters know who Paul Dirac was. Without getting into a debate about hierarchy a poll of physicists rates the top three as Einstein, Newton and Maxwell (Dirac was 8, Feynman was 7). I happen to agree with the first three. My next three are Feynman, Landau then Dirac - but this is only opinion. What makes a great physicist is his/her ability to translate between the physics and the math. In the 20 th century Einstein, Feynman, Landau and Dirac were masters of that - their ability was almost scary. Thanks Bill
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