Are there any current scientists in the process of becoming another Einstein, Bohr, Hawkings, Newton, Galalio etc.?
Rummage through the Nobel prize contenders for the past decade and you will find an impressive list of achievements.
Fame comes in odd ways, though. Einstein wasn’t really famous until he hooked up with the diplomats.
Linus Pauling.
Well not currently as he has passed away but his work will be recognised as revolutionary and world-changing in due time. His name will be mentioned amongst the greats.
insider writes:
> Are there any current scientists in the process of
> becoming another Einstein, Bohr, Hawkings, Newton,
> Galalio etc.?
Stephen Hawking (not Hawkings) is not considered by most physicists to be in the same league as the others you mention (and Bohr is pretty questionable too). Yeah, he’s famous in the popular press, but most physicists would say he’s not in the top 10 physicists of all time.
And it’s spelled Galileo.
I suppose that somebody should mention . . . Alex Chiu :eek:
The thing is, such genii (or lares, as I would prefer to call them) are really only recognized after the fact. Is someone else about to make some phenomenal breakthrough? No way to know. Is there some breakthrough which is not yet recognized? Well, it’s not yet recognized. Hypothetically, should string theory, for instance, ever be proven true, and if it sucessfully quantizes gravity, then the creators of string theory (or the creator of whichever incarnation of string theory actually does the job) will probably be regarded on about that same level. As it is now, though, that evidence isn’t yet in, so we don’t know.