Top 10 Greatest Physicists!

Hello everyone - this video is my personal ranking of the top 10 greatest Physicists to ever live!

Timecodes
0:00 - Introduction
0:09 - Number 10
1:34 - Number 9
2:56 - Number 8
4:06 - Number 7
4:50 - Number 6
6:00 - Number 5
7:20 - Number 4
8:05 - Number 3
9:05 - Number 2
10:10 - Number 1
11:30 - Honourable Mentions

This video features the following Physicists: Richard Feynman, Nikola Tesla, Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, Ernest Rutherford, J.J. Thomson, Albert Einstein, James Chadwick, Marie Curie, Henri Becquerel, Sir Isaac Newton, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Pierre Curie, Louis de Broglie, Wolfgang Pauli, Max Planck, Sir William Lawrence Bragg, Max Born, Steven Weinberg, Abdus Salam, Satyendra Nath Bose, C. V. Raman, James Clerk Maxwell, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Fred Hoyle, Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, Peter Higgs, Daniel Bernoulli, Lise Meitner, Ernst Mach, Enrico Fermi, Galileo Galilei, Ludwig Boltzmann, Wilhelm Röntgen, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger

The following branches/areas of physics were advanced thanks to these great minds!
Mechanics, Classical physics, Modern physics, Thermodynamics, Electricity, Magnetism, Geophysics, Fluid Mechanics, Plasma physics, Optics, Sound and oscillation, Electronics, Chemical physics, Engineering physics, Solid-state physics, Quantum physics, Nuclear physics, Particle physics, Biophysics, Astrophysics and Condensed matter physics,
Newton's laws of motion, Lagrangian mechanics, Hamiltonian mechanics, kinematics, statics, dynamics, chaos theory, acoustics, fluid dynamics, continuum mechanics, Electrostatics, electrodynamics, electricity, magnetism, magnetostatics, Maxwell's equations, optics, Heat engine, kinetic theory, Path integral formulation, scattering theory, Schrödinger equation, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics, Special relativity, general relativity, Einstein field equations, Density, dimension, gravity, space, time, motion, length, position, velocity, acceleration, Galilean invariance, mass, momentum, impulse, force, energy, angular velocity, angular momentum, moment of inertia, torque, conservation law, harmonic oscillator, wave, work, power, Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, Tait–Bryan angles, Euler angles, pneumatic, hydraulic, Capacitance, electric charge, current, electrical conductivity, electric field, electric permittivity, electric potential, electrical resistance, electromagnetic field, electromagnetic induction, electromagnetic radiation, Gaussian surface, magnetic field, magnetic flux, magnetic monopole, magnetic permeability, Boltzmann's constant, conjugate variables, enthalpy, entropy, equation of state, equipartition theorem, thermodynamic free energy, heat, ideal gas law, internal energy, laws of thermodynamics, Maxwell relations, irreversible process, Ising model, mechanical action, partition function, pressure, reversible process, spontaneous process, state function, statistical ensemble, temperature, thermodynamic equilibrium, thermodynamic potential, thermodynamic processes, thermodynamic state, thermodynamic system, viscosity, volume, work, granular material, Adiabatic approximation, black-body radiation, correspondence principle, free particle, Hamiltonian, Hilbert space, identical particles, matrix mechanics, Planck's constant, observer effect, operators, quanta, quantization, quantum entanglement, quantum harmonic oscillator, quantum number, quantum tunneling, Schrödinger's cat, Dirac equation, spin, wave function, wave mechanics, wave–particle duality, zero-point energy, Pauli exclusion principle, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Covariance, Einstein manifold, equivalence principle, four-momentum, four-vector, general principle of relativity, geodesic motion, gravity, gravitoelectromagnetism, inertial frame of reference, invariance, length contraction, Lorentzian manifold, Lorentz transformation, mass–energy equivalence, metric, Minkowski diagram, Minkowski space, principle of relativity, proper length, proper time, reference frame, rest energy, rest mass, relativity of simultaneity, spacetime, special principle of relativity, speed of light, stress–energy tensor, time dilation, twin paradox, world line, agrophysics, astrophysics, space physics, biophysics, chemical physics, E=Mc2, computational physics, econophysics, environmental physics, engineering physics, geophysics, mathematical physics, medical physics, physical chemistry, physical oceanography, psychophysics, quantum computing, sociophysics or social physics.

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[SiqueScarface]

More honorable mentions:
Arnold Sommerfeld
Emmy Noether
Archimedes
Johannes Kepler
Ernst Abbe
Heinrich Hertz
Hermann von Helmholtz
Denis Papin
Henri Poincaré

[everydaymaths]

Doesn't matter who is #1, we owe them all a debt of gratitude. They all influenced our lives greatly.

[dicksonlukata]

Never underestimate the power of Sir Isaac Newton (both physics and mathematics) he was there. Its very hard to place a physicist above Sir Isaac Newton.

[ThatLooksLikeARake]

number one for me is issac newton. the man was not only the best physicist, he was also one of the best mathematicians of all time. much of this list would not exist if Issac Newton did not publish his work. I wonder what he would think of quantum physics though😂

[danbotez]

Paul Dirac belongs in the top 5 physicists of all time.
He was a quiet person, but his contributions to physics overshadow those of Schrodinger, Heisenberg and definitely Feynman

[ianlowery]

At the turn of the millennium, over 100 prominent physicists and science writers were asked to name the 10 top physicists in history and rank them. They all named Einstein as number one, Maxwell as number two, and Newton as number three.
When Einstein was invited to Cambridge University, the Cavendish Professor said to Einstein "You stand on the shoulders of Newton". Einstein replied "No, I stand on the shoulders of Maxwell".

[MrKT]

It is hard not to put Newton #1 when he discoverer Calculus to solve the motion of planets.

[speedomars]

You blew it. John von Neumann made major contributions to mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, group theory, representation theory, operator algebras, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics, and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics. He was a pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics in the development of functional analysis, and a key figure in the development of game theory and the concepts of cellular automata, the universal constructor and the digital computer. He is also considered the father of the modern stored-program computing architecture in use today.

[Leo-dotu]

Sir Isaac Newton is the greatest Physicist ever, without an iota of doubt.

[anthonyjulianelle]

Newton>Einstein. Newton was broaden than Einstein and his results were just as fundamental.

[MottiShneor]

As a BSc. in physics, I must say this list is more a romantic name-dropping for science lovers who feel nostalgia for the golden age of physics in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. These are - no doubt - HUGE physicists, but there are others who contributed no less, and whose contribution will drive us to the next centuries. 

Specifically, I miss Archimedes, Aristotle, Botzman, Mach, Enrico Fermi, several French physicists whose name now escape me, the picture here is not only incomplete - it's distorted to specific direction.

[thomaskeating]

Let's not forget John Bardeen, who got two Nobel prizes in physics (for the invention of the transistor, and the theory of superconductivity).

[James-bvnu]

With the help of giants, Newton and Maxwell laid the foundation for physics.
And Einstein and the QM team laid the second foundation.
However, the QM team not only unable to explain QM, they can't even agree among themselves.

[johnd]

So much of what we have today rests on the shoulders of these few men and women. Newton’s mechanics described what we see whereas Einstein challenged what we think we are seeing. Enjoyed the video.

[deecyrlysons]

Am I the only one to have Boltzmann very high in his ranking? He is still the father of statistical physics

[pruephillip]

I would put Newton as number 1. The list is fairly subjective. There's this neat quote which I must paraphrase, 'There's great times when mediocre scientists do grand science. And there's mediocre times when great scientists can only do mediocre science.'

[hjs]

You should mention Emmy Noether, she discovered the relation between symmetry and conservation.

[lenmargolin]

It is hard to argue with your top 3, though I would put Newton as #1. I would say Newton's realization that mathematics (calculus) could provide evolution equations for physics is the most important discovery of all. I criticize you for not even mentioning Boltzmann, who would be #4 on my list. Finally, I wish you had never mentioned Mach, one of the true villains of physics. Hounded Boltzmann to suicide and never made any substantial contributions.

Why put Schrodinger above Born? Schrodinger not only didn't understand his equation, but rejected Born's correct interpretation.

Just a question, you never mention von Neumann, either in your mathematics list nor your physics list. Doesn't he deserve some notice as one of most creative and diverse scientists of the 20th century.

[hamulimajeshi]

Newton comes at the top of the list for me....

[gypsycruiser]

Einstein’s first wife contributed enormously to ‘his’ attributes and should be celebrated… while Newton’s single handed contribution to Science is unparalleled.