The big ranking of physicists, the first is not Einstein, who is it?

The first place among physicists was, Isaac Newton: a famous British physicist, an encyclopedic "all-rounder".

Galileo! Although there are few references to Galileo in the books we study, it has to be said that Galileo is a top physicist and is known as the "father of modern science".

The first place went to Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo di Piero da Vinci. European Renaissance scientist, inventor, painter and biologist.

Newton, Newton's three laws and gravitation, which he studied in high school and even college, laid the foundation for physics and astronomy, and became the cornerstone of modern engineering.

Albert Einstein is the most famous scientist, but the first place is not him, but Newton, who is the greatest scientist in history.

When people think of physicists, they may think of Albert Einstein because he was very intelligent, had a high IQ, and made great contributions. But at the top of the list is Stephen Hawking.

If it weren't for Einstein, the first would have been Galileo, who invented the pendulum needle and thermometer, made great contributions to mankind in science, and was one of the founders of modern experimental science.

Top 20 greatest physicists: Newton, Einstein, Maxwell, Galileo Galileo, Dirac, Bohr, Planck, Feynman, Faraday, Schrödinger, Chenning Yang, Marie Curie, John Bardeen, John Bell, Archimedes, Copernicus, Pierre Curie, Gerard Tehoft, Hubble, Kepler.

The top three:

1. Dirac.

Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 for "discovering a new form of atomic theory." In addition, Dirac was awarded the Royal Medal in 1939, the Copley Medal and the Max Planck Medal in 1952. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1930 and an Honorary Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1948 and the British Physical Society in 1971.

2. Feynman. <>

Feynman developed a method of expressing quantum amplitude by path integral in the 40s, and proposed a new theoretical form, calculation method and renormalization method of quantum electrodynamics in 1948, thus avoiding the divergence difficulty in quantum electrodynamics. In quantum field theory, "Feynman amplitude", "Feynman propagator", "Feynman rule", etc., are all named after his surname.

3. Archimedes.

Archimedes made great contributions to the development of mathematics and physics, and made an indelible impact on social progress and human development, even Newton and Einstein had drawn wisdom and inspiration from him, he was "the ideal embodiment of a theoretical genius and an experimental genius in one", and Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo in the Renaissance used him as their own model.

The top 20 greatest physicists were Newton, Albert Einstein, Maxwell, Galileo, Dirac, Bohr, Planck, Feynman, Faraday, Schrödinger, Chenning Yang, Marie Curie, John Bardeen, John Bell, Archimedes, Copernicus, Pierre Curie, Gerard Tehoft, Hubble, and Kepler.

1. Kepler.

Kepler took over planetary observations from his teacher Tycho and used his mathematical talents to discover the three laws of planetary motion. This was a major event in the history of human understanding, and Kepler was able to find out the laws followed by objects in the sky, and Kepler could become a great astronomer by doing so. In some rankings of scientists, Kepler's name often appears in the dozens.

But compared to Newton, Kepler had to retreat to the next level.

2. Newton. Newton's three laws and the law of universal gravitation are written in the "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", and he gives the laws that all things in the universe follow in motion, which is an all-encompassing theory, and the motion of objects can be calculated with mathematical equations. The law of gravitation can not only derive Kepler's law, but also predict unknown celestial objects, and can also direct the launch of satellites and spacecraft today.

Kepler's three laws belong to the phenomenological theory, and I only see it like this, but I don't know why it is like this. Newton's theory can tell you why it is the way it is.

3. Maxwell.

Faraday discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction and gave a specific method for generating electricity from magnetism. Faraday invented the generator and brought the big man into the electric age, but his magnetic generation of electricity was only a phenomenological thing, and I don't know why he could generate electricity by doing that. Maxwell gave mathematical equations, four simple equations that encompass all the electromagnetic phenomena in the universe, not only to know why magnetic energy generates electricity, but also to derive Ohm's law, Ampere's loop law, and so on, and can also use this to predict new things.

That's Maxwell's greatness. In the face of Maxwell's exploits, the work of Faraday, Ampere, Coulomb, Auster and others must be ranked second.

Since we are talking about Einstein, we can judge him as the best scientist in the world.

From the perspective of scientific contributions, Einstein's contribution is absolutely second to none, and if it is said to be the best in the world, it is naturally not comparable to the awesome people we all know. The reason why the supermodel dares to say this is because what Master Landau said is favorable.

In stripping away the influence of Master Landau, we re-examine the contributions of both Newton and Einstein.

Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) was the discoverer of the law of gravitation, and in 1687 he published the Mathematical Principia of Natural Philosophy, which expounded the three laws of motion and gravitation.

In 1679, R. Hooke wrote to him that gravity should be inversely proportional to the square of distance, that the orbit of a projectile high above the earth should be elliptical, and that if there was a slit in the earth, the projectile would return to its original place, rather than a spiral toward the center of the earth, as Newton had envisaged. Newton did not reply, but adopted Hooke's observations. Based on Kepler's laws of planetary motion and the work of others, he mathematically derived the laws of universal gravitation.

Newton unified the mechanics and celestial mechanics of objects on earth into a basic mechanical system, and founded the classical mechanical theory system. It correctly reflects the macroscopic motion law of low-speed motion of macroscopic objects, and realizes the first great unification of natural science. This is a leap forward in human understanding of the natural world.

Albert Einstein (1879 -1955) published "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" in the German Annals of Physics in 1905, which expounded for the first time the basic ideas and basic contents of the special theory of relativity: the principle of relativity and the principle of invariance of the speed of light (the idea that the speed of light in a vacuum is the same in any direction and for any inertial frame).

In 1916, Einstein completed the long ** "Fundamentals of General Relativity", in this article, Einstein first called the theory of relativity that was previously applicable to inertial frames the special theory of relativity, and called the principle that only the physical laws of inertial frames are also true as the principle of special relativity, and further stated the principle of general relativity, connecting space-time and gravity, and he believed that gravity was caused by curved space-time.

In fact, it can be clearly seen that the world's best scientists still belong to Newton, because Newton discovered in physics and mathematics, so that people know why the apple falls, the laws of the heavenly bodies. And these rules are still in use today.

Judging from the current situation, the contributions of Newton and Einstein are very huge, and if they are really to be ranked, they should be tied for first place, and it is impossible to determine who is the first person.

Because the theories of these two people have changed the direction of our research and the way of life that followed, in the sense, both of them have influenced the development of the world, and in terms of the degree of influence, I personally think that Einstein may have been a little bigger, but this is not enough to erase the credit of Newton.

But looking at the research direction of these two people, I think Einstein should be able to go slightly further than Newton's card, because Newton couldn't find the answer in science after that, so he began to study theology, and those things in theology are ethereal, but Einstein believed in science all his life, so Einstein's ability may be slightly higher than Newton's.

The top twenty greatest physicists were Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Joule, Werner Heisenberg, Ernest Rutherford, Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman, Michael Faraday, Henry Cavendis, Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Dirac, Max Planck, Maxwell, Bohr, Gell-Mann, Rubin, Galileo, Ampere, Ohm, Oppenheimer.

1. Isaac Newton.

He was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher. He is best known for his description of gravitation and Newton's laws of motion in Prinoginia Mathematica of Natural Philosophy, which laid the foundation for the scientific view of the physical world in the following three horizons and is the foundation of modern engineering.

2. Albert Einstein.

Einstein's great thing is that, on the one hand, he knew some mathematics and had the ability to intuitively appreciate the wonderful parts of mathematics; On the other hand, he also has his intimate knowledge of phenomena in physics. What sets him apart from everyone else is that he can see both up close and far away. He is widely regarded as the greatest physicist since Galileo and Newton.

On December 26, 1999, Albert Einstein was selected as a "Great Man of the Century" by Time Magazine.

3. Joules. For Joule's contributions to thermal, thermodynamics, and electricity, the Royal Society awarded him the highest honor, the Copley Medal. In order to commemorate him, later generations named the unit of energy or work "joule", referred to as "coke"; And the first letter of Joule's surname "j" is used to mark heat as well as the unit of "work".

When Joule studied the nature of heat, he discovered the transformation relationship between heat and work, and thus obtained the law of conservation of energy, and finally developed the first law of thermodynamics.

1. Watt invented the steam engine

Watt once saw the boiling water on the stove when he was a child, and the steam pushed the lid of the kettle open, and Watt put the lid back but it was quickly opened again. Watt kept putting the lid around trying to find out why, and later Watt realized that it was the power of steam, which sparked his interest in steam and led to the invention of the steam engine.

2. Newton discovered the law of gravitation

When the great physicist Newton saw the apple ripe when he was a child, he was curious when it fell down, and he wondered, why did everything on the earth fall to the ground after losing support, and not in other directions? Later, he finally discovered the law of gravitation.

3. Copernicus put forward the heliocentric theory

Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus heard that sundials can use the shadow of the sun to determine time when he was in high school. He was very curious and asked the teacher about the principle of the sundial, and went home to find some waste materials, which were quickly made. He used the sundial he made to study the motion of the sun and the earth.

Copernicus later put forward the famous heliocentric theory, which overturned the erroneous geocentric theory that had been believed to be the sun revolving around the earth.

4. Becquerel discovered a radioactive substance - uranium

In early 1896, shortly after Roentgen's discovery of X-rays, at a regular meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, the French scientist Poincaré presented the discovery and proposed a hypothesis. After the meeting, Becquerel hurried back to his laboratory to design experiments with his scientist father to test Poincaré's conjecture.

Experiments have found that as long as the compound contains uranium, it will emit this miraculous ray, which he called "uranium ray". In 1903, Becquerel, who discovered the radioactive element uranium, and the Curies, who subsequently discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium, won the Nobel Prize in Physics that year.