Top 10 Theoretical Physicists of All Times

Hello everyone, this video is our ranking of the 10 greatest theoretical physicists of all times. We have adjusted this ranking with great care and obsession based on the impact and revolutionary nature of the achievements of these scientists.

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[jozefserf]

For Newton to do what he did and when he did and how he did it is incredible.

[anuradhapyne]

Ludwig Boltzman is sorely missed in this list. He is the founder of modern statistical physics and all the subsequent piece of great works in QM are built on that. Infact, he should be there in the very top league in any sort of rankings among physicsts.

[bmclaughlin]

Great list, and I think you order is pretty spot on. Newton, Einstein then Maxwell

[jimkark]

People commented that Einstein, Planck and Heisenberg stand out, & in some ways they do. But one person stands above all....Newton. Sir Isaac Newton is the father of modern science, is head neck and shoulders above all other scientists! Newton, the greatest Scientist in history!
1. His discovery of the composition of light laid the foundation for Optics!
2. In Mechanics his 3 Laws of Motion resulted in the formulation of the Law of universal Gravitation!
3. In Mathematics he discovered Calculus!
4. Newton wrote and published Principia Mathematica in 1687, which is the most important book ever written in the history of Science!
Newton founded these 4 things, if he had founded just one he would still be classified as one of the greatest, founding all 4 makes Newton the Greatest Scientist ever!

[renesperb]

A little note on Wolfgang Pauli : my thesis adviser had to take physics lectures of Pauli. He told me that Pauli did not clean the blackboard
when it was fully covered with formulas . Instead he would continue with green chalk on top of everything and later with red chalk.
One can guess how difficult it was to follow his very advanced lectures.

[PhilFogle]

Excellent selection. Every one of these people produced ideas of extraordinary beauty. On my list: Boltzmann, and Emmy Noether.

[marccowan]

To put Bohr at 9 feels like a tremendous disservice - his remarkable ability to also send/influence his students and friends in the right directions (a list including Pauli, Heisenberg, Dirac, Meitner, Landau, Kramer’s and Usmani) arguably makes his contribution to 20th century physics as valuable or even moreso than Einstein’s - an incredibly important part of a scientist’s skill set is to provide useful discussion with other scientists, and Bohr was perhaps the best physicist of all time for this.

[jamesbentonticer]

Matched my top ten but order a little different. Great video. I found myself smiling at each new picture that came up.

[regsilverside]

These were my top three too. Well done.

[kato_dsrdr]

I think archimedes deserves a spot on this list..

[MrGyulaBacsi]

The list of names are absolutely OK. Though I think that Einstein, Planck and most importantly Heisenberg stood out significantly from this already noble set of people.

[yassine]

I believe that someone who, among other achievements, tried to measure the speed of light in the 16th century deserve his place in the list. Galileo Galilei is the founder of modern physics.

[gtd]

Three equally towering achievements in physics around the turn of the 20th century. Quantum physics and relativity are well represented here. and given much media attention. But, the third is what Einstein thought could never be overthrown even after quantum physics and relativity are eventually replaced: statistical mechanics. It never gets any love, even on this list. And its implications, especially that of thermodynamics is as equally profound as the other two. Planck and Einstein did some. Einstein used its methods to describe Brownian motion. Anyways, the physicist Boltzman should be on this list.

[hm]

Hard to argue with, though many others could have made the list. All of these are worthy.

[elhassanafddas]

It was a great idea to ranke the famous theoretical physicists of the 20th century. However, I think that "Enrico Fermi" deserves to be in the list. He left behind a huge heritage in both, experimental and theoretical physics which seems to be "rare" and "insane". It's a miracle to switch from a laboratory to the world of mathematics and to contribute substantially to each one of them with the same amount of interest and curiosity. He have derived the Fermi-Dirac statistics a few months before Dirac, he have derived also the Golden Rule named after him in his proper way and independentally, and the half-integer spin particles hold his name, 'Fermions'. He was the father of Beta-decay theory - the theory opening the door to the unification of Glashow-Weinberg-Salam. He was the developer of the nuclear reactors and control of chain reaction he worked on even before Meitner and Otto Hahn. Without forgetting his theoretical proof of the existence of neutrinos assumed by Pauli in 1930. During his last years, he worked on the meson theory and the pion-Nucleon interaction. I think "Fermi" should be in the list and that for many reasons.
Thanks for your interesting work 💡

[iyadipeter-dkmz]

Thank you for these pieces of fantastic jobs done.

[ramganeshtttt]

*MY LIST*


15. S chandrasekhar: his approach totally revolutionised astrophysics and his limit eventually was the responsible for the explanation that what are black holes and how black Holes are form? Prior to him, physicists thinks that suns, when they dies(or loses all fuels), they became dwarf star but his work predicted that starts can become neutron star too and explained that Black holes are nothing but form of starts.

14. Richard feymann(for his fundamental contributions to Quantum electrodynamics)

13. SN BOSE (his work predicted bosons and 5th state of matter)

12. De broglie (proposed wave particle duality for all matters)

11. Heindric Lorentz ( his works arefundamental for special and general theory of relativity and even for quantum theory).

10. Max born (he formulated probability density function and matrix machanics which are very important for quantum theory)

9. Wolfgang pauli ( his spin theory forms the basis for the structure of mattar)

8. Max plank (discovered E=hv; this work was foundation for quantum theory)

7. Neil bohr( for the structure of atom)

6. Paul dirac(his dirac equation predicted anti matter and considered on par with Newton, Maxwell and eistien's works)

5. werner Heisenberg(his uncertainty principle and matrix machanics are base of quantum physics)

4. Erwin Schrodinger (he invented wave function and wave equation which exists at heart of quantum physics and quantum field theory)

3. James clark Maxwell ( theoritically predicted electromagnetic waves and Maxwell equation was precursor for special theory of relativity while electromagnetic waves are used every day in our life.
Electromagnetic waves are responsible for our internet, televisions and every wireless related gadgets)

2.albert Eistien(discovered special, general theory of relativity and proposed wave particle duality for light and predicted bosons by reading the paper of sn bose)

1. Sir issac Newton ( he invented calculus and whatever humanity achieved in last 2 centuries was not possible without the discovery of calculus)

[domtesil]

What about experimentalists? Could you make a video for them as well?

[frogandspanner]

Where is Galileo - the founder of modern theoretical Physics? I would put JCM and Einstein on the same shoulders - those of Galileo. Those three predicted so much from so little - Occam emrazored.

[topolino]

If we can consider Enrico Fermi also theoretical physicist, and I think we can, he shouldn’t be missing in the top 10. The same I can’t say about Newton