Who is the all time greatest physicist?

[gib1233]

Specify in comments if your choice is not in poll options... thanks ( by the way the pic is the 1927 Solvay conference... perhaps the greatest gathering of scientists ever)

Isaac Newton

Albert Einstein

James Clerk Maxwell

Niels Bohr

Heisenberg

Galileo

Richard Feynman

[zagor]

I don't think it's a competition or a popularity contest. People build on what came before. All of these people made significant contributions.

I would include Gauss in this group as well.

[gib1233]

Gauss? As an all time physicist? I mean he contributed some to physics but he's a mathematician mainly... ?

[zagor]

He made huge contributions to electrical field theory.

[Anonymous]

It's Enrico Fermi. He was a true expert on everything. That's why others used to call him the pope of physics.

Others mentioned here are more popular to general people as they were more in the limelight. Einstein actually did write very little about relativity unlike what most people think.

[AngryCarl2]

I'm not well qualified to answer but if the question was who was the most influential I would say Einstein.

[CuriousMufuxka]

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Some smart guy said that like 50 thousand years ago or something.

[strateguy632]

Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642, greatest

[gib1233]

Why didn't you vote? 🙂

[Minahh]

Einstein no doubt. He's one of the wisest men ever.

[msc545]

Einstein's discoveries are still being used.