"I have no special talent. I'm only passionately curious" Albert Einstein "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall" Nelson Mandela "Feynman is my mom" Andrew Dotson
@@theskyisblue8979 Ok, Fun Fact. Technology is not physics and Tesla is not a physicist. He didn't even invented AC it was invented long before we was born. Lmao. He is only famous because people who are so inferior that they couldn't understand a single thing pumped up him.
CARLOS DANIEL ARMENTA MORENO that’s exactly why the government classified all his work which is still millennials ahead of the technology open to us today
How could you forget my boy Euler? He's responsible for the Euler equation, Euler's law, the Euler method, Euler's number, and for making me spend €13 to have a portrait of him overlooking me while I study.
@@MrPrebuttal no. its not what you know that counts if you cannot pass the joy to others. Feynman taught us how to enjoy science. And that makes all the difference in the world.
@@SoctuvasTheGreat if we're going with baseless accusations I could say the same about you . As for being a dick and an asshole, no one will deny that about newt, he mighr be a greasy, slimy , snivelling bastard but he's still one of the greatest minds ever and he's still ma main man.
No, @@abhiramdeva1417, he's right. Newton was all those things. He was a pimp and an alchemist and an occultist, a liar, a thief, a sadist and more. As a person, Newton is a superdick. But he's also a super genius.
Issac Newton is like Einstein, Hamilton and Curie combined. He basically invented theoretical physics! Newton is the perfect match for a super evil genius villain in the real world.
Hey, Andrew! The Lorentz of the Lorentz force law and the Lorentz transformation are named after the same flying Dutchman, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz. The Lorenz, without the t, is Ludwig Lorenz, of Lorenz gauge fame. This guy was Danish. They are not to be confused with Edward Lorentz, the American meteorologist and co-founder of chaos theory. He discovered the butterfly effect.
It's Lipschitz, Lifshitz, and all of the Bernoullis that confuse me. At least you know that when something is named after Euler, there's only one man we pay homage to.
Seems like a good opportunity to bring up the Lorentz-Lorenz equation... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausius%E2%80%93Mossotti_relation#Lorentz%E2%80%93Lorenz_equation
Man Dirac should be S tier. Feynman was inspired by a "mysterious" statement in Diracs notes about the propagator being proportional to a functional integral which lead him to the path integral formalism of QM. This means your influence was influenced by Dirac!
Marcus Rosales sure but Dirac was the worst at public speaking. I don’t necessarily care how smart someone is if they can’t communicate what they do. (Is exaggerating but I think you get my point)
@@no-one-in-particular Well if you watched the video in line with his comment then it would make perfect sense. Your comment seems to make sense if you did not watch the video. He said which individuals had the greatest impact on HIS journey through physics. If there is a book that he didn't manage to read, obviously that individual will be ranked low. If someone managed to be good at public speaking and he found a youtube video and it captivated him, obviously that individual ranks high. Or alternatively he might simply place greater value in communication in general than impact. Whatever way it is framed, it is who influenced him, not who was the best scientist.
I got confronted with tensors in first semester (classical mechanics) and hated them because our professor refused to try and give us some intuition for them. I worked hard to get intuition anyway and now they are so amazing and powerful!
Einstein HAS to be S tier, im sorry. Head of applied physics at Yale, Douglas Stone, argues that Einstein should've won 7 to 10 Nobel Prizes...TEN. 1. Brownian Motion 2. Special Relativity 2b. E=mc2 3. Quantizing Energy (Photoelectric Effect) 4. Specific Heat of Solids 5. Quantized Vibrations 6. Wave-Particle Duality 7. General Relativity + Gravitational Waves 8. Spontaneous & Stimulated Emission (LASER) 9. Bose-Einstein Statistics & Bose-Einstein Condensate 10. Entanglement (EPR Correlations) *Im leaving out MANY seminal papers that were borderline Nobel caliber such as his 1919 paper on Quantizes chaos - showing how when quantum theory intersects with chaos wherein systems are very sensitive to initial conditions. In it he shows the limits of the old bohr-sommerfeld quantization rules. Einstein is the greatest physicist ever. I love Feynman, top 5 for sure. www.huffpost.com/entry/einstein-fantasy-physics_b_4948045
Your physics nerd really came out here - loved listening to it :) learned a good bit of history here too. When you say Marie Curie was just like "yeah I got a couple of those laying around," she literally did - she wanted to burn them and give them to the war effort. She also never cared enough to pick up her prize money and was about to just use it for helping when she needed it. Personal list of who I think is the best 1. Albert Einstein 2. Isaac Newton 3. Paul Dirac 4. Richard Feynman 5. Emmy Noether 6. Julian Schwinger 7. Eugene Wigner 8. Marie Curie 9. Werner Heisenberg 10. Enrico Fermi Personal favorites though 1. Paul Dirac (just his personality, I know it was a bit rough, but he was an awkward introvert, and i identify with that) 2. Albert Einstein (he not only broke physics, but he also brought up so many people, and had social impacts as well, he deserves all praise he gets) 3. Emmy Noether (she's so badass lol, also her theorem is like the basis of modern physics) 4. Julian Schwinger (this guy is one of those assholes where you have to respect that chip on that shoulder, also his approach to QFT is my personal favorite, sorry Feynman, they also both came from Queens though so +1 for that!) 5. Marie Curie (her entire life makes me feel unworthy to say her name) 6. Lev Landau (his textbooks and his ability to be so well-versed in all areas of physics 7. Steven Weinberg (he went to my high school, also those QFT books, damn) 8. Sheldon Glashow (he also went to my high school and came back to give a talk to us :) , unification!) 9. Stephen Hawking (from my childhood :') ) 10. Eugene Wigner (symmetries, i love it) Sidenote - Yes Richard Feynman isn't in my top 10 but he's rising. Not gonna lie, listening to him talk just didn't go well with me at first, but he's been growing on me. Also, the more and more I learn about physics going into more advanced quantum mechanics, QFT, etc. I have to respect the way he thought about physics. I still prefer Schwinger's approach, and Feynman deserves all the praise he gets, he just isn't my person favorite.
Diego Marra The first list is based solely on contributions to physics. The second is personal, so you raise a good point. Outside the family, Einstein not only contributed a lot to physics, but he fought for civil rights for Blacks and for Jews, often speaking at Black institutions, etc. Historical hindsight might paint the Zionist picture differently but we have to remember this is before Palestine was picked to b the new home of the Jews and subsequent expulsion of Palestinians occurred. On this part, he harbored orientalist beliefs, but acted in a way that rose non-European physicists like Bose up where he personally translated a paper to German that would eventually make Bose famous. So, it is justifiable to like him despite these beliefs. Now, having had researched this just now, I wasn’t aware to the extent he was an awful husband and father. So this is a very good point. I would say that taking this into account of a holistic picture, he is certainly someone who can be regarded as the best physicist for societal contributions.
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@Diego Marra He was NOT a horrible person you lying fool. Its annoying having to correct lies.
the force and transformations are both lorentz, the gauge is lorenz there's also an equation in e&m that they developed independently, which of course is called the lorenz-lorentz equation
A (sad) fun fact about Noether is that her male professor colleagues at the university she worked at said that it is total nonsense that they are ranked above her despite the fact that she outclasses them with ease.
Yo Andrew! I just wanted to tell you that I am currently watching your Tensor Calculus video series because I decided that I had to be more educated on this topic. I used to be scared when I heard the word tensor, and I am still not an expert obviously, but I understand tensors, vectors and matrices much better now thanks to your videos! Thank you a lot for having put so much effort into explaining it :)
Love the list! Personally I would have Curie and Tesla rank B, Curie for significant impact as well as overcoming the challenges and stigmas of her day, and Tesla for personal impact as an inventor that has me currently leaning toward experimental physics! Great video and love the channel!
Tesla was an absolutely brilliant electrical engineer. Second to none, even by today's standards, and one of my personal heros... But you have to admit that he wasn't on the winning team in the area of physics, given his objections to GR and QM.
@@MrJdcirbo Can't argue with you there :) But from a physicist perspective I'd put him at least higher than D tier... Once again I'm EE so on my personal tierlist he'd be S tier.
@@ProLeopardx1 yeah. They called him the wizard of electronics for a reason, and his greatest works are STILL not being used (wireless electricity), and I'm convinced there are, as of yet, undiscovered applications of his work, but that's conjecture. Yeah, one really can't swing hard enough on Tesla in terms of EE.
Have a look around the torrents you'll find almost complete audio recordings of them zipped up. I used to fall asleep listening to them, then read the lecture the next day, they gave me a massive boost in my first year.
gotta include newton. S tier. Insane. Imagine coming up with the concepts of most of our physical observables without almost any of the scaffolding there before you. Like energy seems like an intuitive concept now, but how the hell would you come up with that if no one had explained it to you?
I can totally relate with your excitement towards wanting to understand what all those more advanced formulas were about because that's exactly how I feel when I watch your tensor calculus series xD
Hi. My name is Professor Layman, and I only watched up to 1:40 so far. I have no formal higher education, but I've always been interested in physics nonetheless. My self education is limited to like a half-dozen books and like a half-dozen hours of YT videos. I somehow never heard of RPF until like 5 years ago, but I was instantly intrigued. After reading some of his stuff (You must be joking, etc) he quickly became not only my favorite physicist, but also my role model and spiritual master xD The point is, I practically cheered when you put him alone in S-tier. :D I'll watch the rest now. Thanks for reading :)
I think my only S would be Maxwell only for the fact that his equations in differential form looked so cool It made me want to learn calc 1 2 3 and differential equations in 2nd year of high school just so I can understand them.
Excuse me, Neil Degrass Tyson ? I trusted you. Not only did you put Hawking above Noether , you put them all on the same level as some.. big mouthed know it all
I respect your ranking. I especially like where you put Noether, and what you said about her. Her theorem is a rare deep statement about the very nature of reality. I think my list, which is more based on my level of respect rather than their actual influence on me, would start something like this: S: Newton A: Einstein, Noether B: Feynman, Dirac, Maxwell C: Boltzmann, Schrodinger, Bohr, Hypatia ...
I would've put Einstein in S as trivially as it sounds. He contributed so much... Photoelectric effect, Special Theory of Relativity, interaction between matter and radiation, thermodynamics. And GENERAL RELATIVITY. This latter subject is soooo underrated among physicists. It's the best theory which describes gravity, and the whole idea behind that is just a conceptual hop that has no match, even in the gauge theories. Feynmann as a person was great, and was also a great physicist since able to simplify complex concepts, but Einstein has done just an incredible job. He gave us a way to unravel the time and go back to the beginning, his theory has encoded such esotic objects as black holes, and he didn't even observe one (he did actually not believe such objects could be physically possible, such was their weirdness). Just by plugging in the energy and pressure of some object, the theory predicts how light bends. SR and GR gave us the insight that only a portion of our universe is causally accessible to us, and this is mind-blowing. Feynmann is the greatest in making Physics learnable, Einstein is just the greatest theoretical physicist has ever lived.
I thought h was given to us by Max Plank, but he didn't know what he had. He thought it was just a mathematical trick to solve the ultraviolet catastrophe. Then Albert Einstein in his first publication on the photo electric effect said no, it's real Max, light is quantized. Albert won a Nobel prize for that paper.
@@dreggory82 well Planck used h as a proportionality constant. It was later after Heisenberg uncertainty principle was discovered that people realised the constant Gibbs used to derive the partition function was effectively the same since part of the process was to take the limit ∆x∆p/h→dxdp/h in order to switch the sum to an integral.
Stephen Hawking and Einstein would definitely be in S for me, there the reason I took Physics and Maths at A-Level and although I’ve strayed away from pure physics (Electronic Engineering Student) id definitely not be where I am now if it wasn’t for the countless Stephen Hawkins space documentaries I watched while I was growing up or trying to use E = mc^2 as a 12 year old who was still struggling to solve quadratic equations
Coming back three years later, as someone much closer to being a proper mathematician this is a very different video lmao. Interestingly enough, in terms of the rankings of the mathematicians (Noether, Lagrange, Hamilton...) I would say the ranking still holds. Except, Lagrange definitely should be A or B. But I am an algebraist and thus biased.
Dude Einstein should stand above all. You will never outgrow him, look at pretty much any branch of physics and you will see his name. The amount of stuff he did was amazing.
I believe Feynman was inspired to work on quantum electrodynamics after reading Dirac's book. He definitely deserves high placement for calling out the GOAT
S tier feels more like a cultural (to a certain extent, national pride) tier. It's the tier where you put the physicist that most heavily influences (the childhood hero so to speak) people in your country/region/etc. In the English-speaking world (especially west of the Atlantic), it's Feynman; For the Russians, it's probably the likes of Landau (always mentioned by my Russian colleagues); French; Chinese; Indians; etc.
Some one told me James clerk Maxwell is the most underrated physicist of all time ,but he did so much for the modern world , i mean look around ...To me as an Engineer he is the most important scientist ever..
I think that Newton might be useful for you engineers. What are you going to do without calculus? How are you going to build bridges, etc? But yeah ! Maxwell !! And he was the best guy there.
I don't know if you ranked them on the basis of their contribution or on the basis of " who is my favourite " no one and "literally" no one can put plank, Maxwell and Einstein below fienmann( his work become possible because of all three of them).
Thats it andrew, after the years of watching you across 3 accounts, its finally over. I cannot support someone who bases their physics tier list on personal impact rather than their sex appeal. 0/10 unsubscribed, reported, and beaned. Im so ashamed!
I agree that Emmy Noether is A tier. Her theorem is the cornerstone of all of physics. Everything in physics can be understood in terms of symmetries and symmetry breaking.
@@AdrianChia531 No, he only used their achievements in the field of physics as a measurement in his whole video. And when it comes to achievements and contributions to physics, all the people he ranked here seem like little kids playing on the backyard when comparing them to Newton.
@ Newton built everything from the ground. What the hell are you talking about? He discovered gravity, the laws of movement, the law of Energy conservation, the laws of work and action. He ivented calculus for christ sake. Not to mention his contributions to optik. He first discovered of what light cosists. You have absolutely no idea about physics. Einstein discovered the Photo-effect, solely on behalf of Planks work. He discovered SR, mainly based on the works of Maxwell and Lorenz. Then his Magnus Opus: GR. Mainly based on the works of Riemann and Minkowski. The today known inplications from GR are not even discovered by Einstein. The first Solutions of the Einsteins field equations are done by Schwarzschild. And after Quantum mechanics was discovered, he basically published just trash because he thought Quantum mechanics was wrong. After GR he contributed zero to physics. Now, this may sound all negative, but I am of course not denying his genious, since he was great at combining existing ideas. He was probably the best at it. But he was nowhere near the genious of Newton who came up with basically the whole physics. Sure, the math is easier in newton mechanics than GR, but the complexity of math is not a measurement wheather someone is smarter than the other. Math is just a tool used to describe reality. And by the way: Newton discovered with calculus the biggest field in mathematics (alongside with Leibnitz), while Einstein sended his papers to mathematicians because he was not able to solve the equations by its own. In his paper to SR his ex-wife did most of the math. That much as who was the better mathematician.
Tesla was an engineer so obviously he wouldn't really be an inspiration to most theoretical physicist. But his electric motor ohh my God it's the cradle of modern mechanical engineering.
for me btw s-Tier is definitely Hamilton for the Hamilton principle, it gives just such an essential connection between maths and phsics in my opinion and Einstein of corse, no words needed.
I would have included 1) De Broglie and along with 2) Newton, 3) Boltzmann, 4) Einstein, 5) Bohr, 6) Schrödinger and 7) Plank they would be in S tier for me. Their profound insight that they shared with humanity has changed my life more than anything. Can you imagine living in a world where they have never existed or didn't make any contributions to science? What a sad world that would be. Feynmann made me love physics, education, teaching and learning. Those Seven made me love the universe.
I dont understand why S is before A. Is S the secret 0th letter of the alphabet, and why so arbitrarily? But S is the 19th letter of the alphabet. So, since 0 and 19 are equivalent, is the alphabet really a circle mod 19? So that means A is equivalent to T, B to U, C to V, etc. But why this? Why did we make equivalent letters for A through G (T through Z), and then stop? What if I want to find the equivalent of L, or some shit? So is Z not really the end of the alphabet?! What the shit is this madness??!!?!? Thanks for nothing, Earth.
Missing Physicist (Chemist) - Josiah Willard Gibbs - wrote the foundation of Statistical Mechanics, Free Energy & thermodynamics, Vector Algebra (which gives us the Maxwell Equations as we know them), supported the slaves from the ship Amistad.
"I have no special talent. I'm only passionately curious"
Albert Einstein
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall"
Nelson Mandela
"Feynman is my mom"
Andrew Dotson
Dirac is the father of feynman
Please stop dude i'm getting a massive boner reading these
Well he actually had a special talent though. Just look at his childhood grades. He was obviously very gifted. Humble and great quote though.
"I put Tesla for fan service"
*in D tier he goes*
Noooo Andrew you've blundered!
This video wouldn't have happened without AC so.
@@theskyisblue8979 Ok, Fun Fact. Technology is not physics and Tesla is not a physicist. He didn't even invented AC it was invented long before we was born. Lmao. He is only famous because people who are so inferior that they couldn't understand a single thing pumped up him.
@@theskyisblue8979 Thank hippolyte pixii for that
Top 10 best physicist :
10. You
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7. They all
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1. Feynmann
Feynman still at the top lol
Fck ofr
Oh my god I laughed pretty hard at this one.
Nice. I've seen this for Euler and mathematicians before but not physicists
basically all the physics students
It's approximately a Gaussian distribution
It's a bit sad that it's not the euler lagrange equation for fields, but ok.
I was was looking for this comment
Hypothesis: goodness is normally distributed
math checks out
Engineer: it's approximately a triangle!
"Feynman is my mom." - Andrew Dotson, 2019.
He's my dad. Guess we are brothers
No i m ur dad u idiot
@@romekhanna and I'm ur dad so this guy is my grandson. ur both idiots
@@harleyspeedthrust4013 I am your grandfather. I am also not your grandfather.
@@aaronrashid2075 o shite what's up grandpa
Did I just watch a video of Low Sample Size Normal Distribution Simulation?
Kind of
Experimental nuclear physics Andrew Dotson - tier F
Tensor boi Andrew Dotson - SSSS
🙏😂😂😂
*puts tesla in D*
Every Engineer: You’re wrong
As you just said, Tesla is more of an engineer, not a physicist.
Even as an engineer he was not that good as people like to think.
@@carlosdanielarmentamoreno3900 you are wrong
@@akinddegenerate4578 Found the engineer
CARLOS DANIEL ARMENTA MORENO that’s exactly why the government classified all his work which is still millennials ahead of the technology open to us today
How could you forget my boy Euler? He's responsible for the Euler equation, Euler's law, the Euler method, Euler's number, and for making me spend €13 to have a portrait of him overlooking me while I study.
I thought about it but figured I already had a mathematician on the list
@@AndrewDotsonvideos a pity, you could have had THE mathematician in your list
Andrew Dotson Isaac newton/Euler/Gauss/Ramanujan/Goethe/Einstein > Feynmann
@@MrPrebuttal no. its not what you know that counts if you cannot pass the joy to others. Feynman taught us how to enjoy science. And that makes all the difference in the world.
Peshal Dahal Feynmann is a fun teacher, the rest I mentioned are the GOATs
Where is NEWTON, the supreme all father, god of us ALL.
absolutely
Newton was a pimp and a thief. His true passion
was alcamey and the occult. He sold his niece into prostitution.
@@SoctuvasTheGreat if we're going with baseless accusations I could say the same about you . As for being a dick and an asshole, no one will deny that about newt, he mighr be a greasy, slimy , snivelling bastard but he's still one of the greatest minds ever and he's still ma main man.
No, @@abhiramdeva1417, he's right. Newton was all those things. He was a pimp and an alchemist and an occultist, a liar, a thief, a sadist and more. As a person, Newton is a superdick. But he's also a super genius.
Issac Newton is like Einstein, Hamilton and Curie combined. He basically invented theoretical physics! Newton is the perfect match for a super evil genius villain in the real world.
Newton: Gravity is a magical force that no one knows why its there.
Einstein: 4:49
Lmao
Deserves to be top comment
I laughed so hard at this :D well played.
good one
Einstein is the GOAT Physicist
Hey, Andrew! The Lorentz of the Lorentz force law and the Lorentz transformation are named after the same flying Dutchman, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz. The Lorenz, without the t, is Ludwig Lorenz, of Lorenz gauge fame. This guy was Danish.
They are not to be confused with Edward Lorentz, the American meteorologist and co-founder of chaos theory. He discovered the butterfly effect.
It's Lipschitz, Lifshitz, and all of the Bernoullis that confuse me. At least you know that when something is named after Euler, there's only one man we pay homage to.
I mean, the apartment I live in has quite a low rent.
Wait, Lorenz gauge was derived not by Hendrik ? That's news...
Seems like a good opportunity to bring up the Lorentz-Lorenz equation...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausius%E2%80%93Mossotti_relation#Lorentz%E2%80%93Lorenz_equation
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I am... confused...
Shout out to me not knowing my face was getting fat because I had a beard. Brb gotta go try to remember what a macro is.
A macro is much like a tensor in that it transforms your body much like a tensor transforms other things. What I'm saying is macros make you fat.
If only you hit the gym as much as you hit the textbooks, oh wait
This is a mood
Thanks for reminding me to never shave mine. 😁😘
Do you follow/are subscribed to Maxx Chewning? I'm sure you would love his videos
"Feynman is my mom". Could get a bit awkward with Pappa Flammy.
😂😂
Both starts with F
Feynman and flammy
Puts a mathematician on the list, but forgets our Lord and savior leonhard boiler. Straight SS tier my guy
(no pun intended)
Boiler ahahahaahahahahahahahahahahaha
>physicists
>Lagrange, Hamilton, Emmy Noether
Bruh moment
Clever move leaving off Gauss so you could skip SS tier
Clever of you not to mention Euler so you could skip SSS tier
Clever of you not to mention Heisenberg so you could skip SSSS tier
@@primsiren1740 gtfo
I would put Einstein, Newton and Feynman in S tier. Shout-out to my boy Edward Witten as well lol; the only physicist to win a Fields medal.
I have seen you in Mohit tyagi videos . JEE kaisa Gaya?
@@x15cyberrush9 abhi tak appear Nahi hua hu.
Why?
SpaghettiToaster I believe he made a lot of racist comments in his travel diaries while on his voyage to the Far East and Middle East
Edward is awesome, Fritz Zwicky is another name which might deserve some credit! 👽
Man Dirac should be S tier. Feynman was inspired by a "mysterious" statement in Diracs notes about the propagator being proportional to a functional integral which lead him to the path integral formalism of QM. This means your influence was influenced by Dirac!
Marcus Rosales sure but Dirac was the worst at public speaking. I don’t necessarily care how smart someone is if they can’t communicate what they do. (Is exaggerating but I think you get my point)
@@AndrewDotsonvideos He wasn't that bad IMO. I liked his lectures online, but he was an odd fellow. Very modest though.
An odd fellow, but he did steam a good ham.
@@AndrewDotsonvideos You're not the best at public speaking, but here we are. Jk lol we love our tensor boi
@@no-one-in-particular Well if you watched the video in line with his comment then it would make perfect sense. Your comment seems to make sense if you did not watch the video.
He said which individuals had the greatest impact on HIS journey through physics. If there is a book that he didn't manage to read, obviously that individual will be ranked low. If someone managed to be good at public speaking and he found a youtube video and it captivated him, obviously that individual ranks high.
Or alternatively he might simply place greater value in communication in general than impact. Whatever way it is framed, it is who influenced him, not who was the best scientist.
"Because it's like... I love tensors"
- no undergrad student, ever
I did. But I took differential geometry from the math department so seeing indices for the first time was a trip.
I loved tensors, still do. I was fascinated by them because I didn't yet understand them
I got confronted with tensors in first semester (classical mechanics) and hated them because our professor refused to try and give us some intuition for them. I worked hard to get intuition anyway and now they are so amazing and powerful!
Ranking undergraduate physics courses
oooh
@@AndrewDotsonvideos pls
Pls
pls
Damn, so my boy Boltzmann got out shined by Tesla. He would literally kill himself if he found that out.
That's so sad, cause he did literally kill himself. And no wooshing me! I get that you were probably implying that as a joke... but, too soon man.
k
@@dreggory82 He died 115 fucking years ago, what do you mean "too soon" XD
@@GamingBlake2002 bro have some sensitivity for his family smh
Not to worry his student won't-
Nvm, hes gone too.
Happy (π + ћ)th of July Andrew!
ћ = 0
∴ π = 4
@@XanderGouws pretty sure it's π=3 and ћ=1 (in natural units)
Thinking like an engineer
@Hardcore Mathematician Fuck da police.
And today is π+ e + h
Einstein HAS to be S tier, im sorry. Head of applied physics at Yale, Douglas Stone, argues that Einstein should've won 7 to 10 Nobel Prizes...TEN.
1. Brownian Motion
2. Special Relativity
2b. E=mc2
3. Quantizing Energy (Photoelectric Effect)
4. Specific Heat of Solids
5. Quantized Vibrations
6. Wave-Particle Duality
7. General Relativity + Gravitational Waves
8. Spontaneous & Stimulated Emission (LASER)
9. Bose-Einstein Statistics & Bose-Einstein Condensate
10. Entanglement (EPR Correlations)
*Im leaving out MANY seminal papers that were borderline Nobel caliber such as his 1919 paper on Quantizes chaos - showing how when quantum theory intersects with chaos wherein systems are very sensitive to initial conditions. In it he shows the limits of the old bohr-sommerfeld quantization rules.
Einstein is the greatest physicist ever. I love Feynman, top 5 for sure.
www.huffpost.com/entry/einstein-fantasy-physics_b_4948045
Yeah we're all living in Einstein's shadow. The man's ability to ask the right question was staggering.
Einstein's contribution in Bose-Einstein Statistics is BIG ZERO
Go & Read History...
"no beard" comments in 3...2...1....
Oh I see. You were using a beard to hide the chub
dude I know right wtf
Duck you're giving Pikachu a run for his money
Your physics nerd really came out here - loved listening to it :) learned a good bit of history here too. When you say Marie Curie was just like "yeah I got a couple of those laying around," she literally did - she wanted to burn them and give them to the war effort. She also never cared enough to pick up her prize money and was about to just use it for helping when she needed it.
Personal list of who I think is the best
1. Albert Einstein
2. Isaac Newton
3. Paul Dirac
4. Richard Feynman
5. Emmy Noether
6. Julian Schwinger
7. Eugene Wigner
8. Marie Curie
9. Werner Heisenberg
10. Enrico Fermi
Personal favorites though
1. Paul Dirac (just his personality, I know it was a bit rough, but he was an awkward introvert, and i identify with that)
2. Albert Einstein (he not only broke physics, but he also brought up so many people, and had social impacts as well, he deserves all praise he gets)
3. Emmy Noether (she's so badass lol, also her theorem is like the basis of modern physics)
4. Julian Schwinger (this guy is one of those assholes where you have to respect that chip on that shoulder, also his approach to QFT is my personal favorite, sorry Feynman, they also both came from Queens though so +1 for that!)
5. Marie Curie (her entire life makes me feel unworthy to say her name)
6. Lev Landau (his textbooks and his ability to be so well-versed in all areas of physics
7. Steven Weinberg (he went to my high school, also those QFT books, damn)
8. Sheldon Glashow (he also went to my high school and came back to give a talk to us :) , unification!)
9. Stephen Hawking (from my childhood :') )
10. Eugene Wigner (symmetries, i love it)
Sidenote - Yes Richard Feynman isn't in my top 10 but he's rising. Not gonna lie, listening to him talk just didn't go well with me at first, but he's been growing on me. Also, the more and more I learn about physics going into more advanced quantum mechanics, QFT, etc. I have to respect the way he thought about physics. I still prefer Schwinger's approach, and Feynman deserves all the praise he gets, he just isn't my person favorite.
Diego Marra The first list is based solely on contributions to physics. The second is personal, so you raise a good point. Outside the family, Einstein not only contributed a lot to physics, but he fought for civil rights for Blacks and for Jews, often speaking at Black institutions, etc. Historical hindsight might paint the Zionist picture differently but we have to remember this is before Palestine was picked to b the new home of the Jews and subsequent expulsion of Palestinians occurred. On this part, he harbored orientalist beliefs, but acted in a way that rose non-European physicists like Bose up where he personally translated a paper to German that would eventually make Bose famous. So, it is justifiable to like him despite these beliefs.
Now, having had researched this just now, I wasn’t aware to the extent he was an awful husband and father. So this is a very good point. I would say that taking this into account of a holistic picture, he is certainly someone who can be regarded as the best physicist for societal contributions.
@Diego Marra He was NOT a horrible person you lying fool. Its annoying having to correct lies.
Hawking has special respect in my heart. To do what he did, to walk the path of science even after his difficulties, that's a big inspiration.
I was hoping you would rank them according to impact. Please consider doing a video where you rank Physicists by impact.
RIP Stephen Hawking probably the funniest Physicist to ever do stand up #legend
Is this supposed to be a joke because he couldn't possibly perform stand up comedy while being incapable of actually standing up?
@@yourlordandsaviouryeesusbe2998 The term I guess is metaphoric
the force and transformations are both lorentz, the gauge is lorenz
there's also an equation in e&m that they developed independently, which of course is called the lorenz-lorentz equation
One person in S-tier?? Feynman.... go ahead and neglect everyone else!
A (sad) fun fact about Noether is that her male professor colleagues at the university she worked at said that it is total nonsense that they are ranked above her despite the fact that she outclasses them with ease.
you forgot Landau, the man who literally spent his time assigning ratings to physicists
Lev Landau scale 👍👍
Personally I would’ve had Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr on that list!!
Well he had Schrodinger who made both of them obselete
When you first learn Bohr's atomic theory. Then the professor turns around and says he's wrong for literally every other element but hydrogen.
I'd have Einstein in S tier, he's the GOAT imo. I stan him what can I say?
I mean newton and my man would only stand alone in s tier , feyman himself has said how he stand upon those giants
Could you make a second video on other physicists like Newton or Galileo? It would be noice
Yo Andrew! I just wanted to tell you that I am currently watching your Tensor Calculus video series because I decided that I had to be more educated on this topic. I used to be scared when I heard the word tensor, and I am still not an expert obviously, but I understand tensors, vectors and matrices much better now thanks to your videos! Thank you a lot for having put so much effort into explaining it :)
Love the list! Personally I would have Curie and Tesla rank B, Curie for significant impact as well as overcoming the challenges and stigmas of her day, and Tesla for personal impact as an inventor that has me currently leaning toward experimental physics! Great video and love the channel!
As an EE, every fiber of my being rejects Tesla at D tier but I understand your reasoning for it.
I still disagree COMPLETELY but respectfully 😂
thank you for not shunning me too hard
@@AndrewDotsonvideos No worries, physicists are our friends regardless
Tesla was an absolutely brilliant electrical engineer. Second to none, even by today's standards, and one of my personal heros... But you have to admit that he wasn't on the winning team in the area of physics, given his objections to GR and QM.
@@MrJdcirbo Can't argue with you there :)
But from a physicist perspective I'd put him at least higher than D tier...
Once again I'm EE so on my personal tierlist he'd be S tier.
@@ProLeopardx1 yeah. They called him the wizard of electronics for a reason, and his greatest works are STILL not being used (wireless electricity), and I'm convinced there are, as of yet, undiscovered applications of his work, but that's conjecture. Yeah, one really can't swing hard enough on Tesla in terms of EE.
Thanks for ranking me so high - I really enjoy being high.
If you’re going to pretend to be Feynman at least change your name to Richard Feynman.
Roblox JZ343 Nice profile pic but I think mines better.
NAH ! I dont like honors.
*confused screaming*
It’s weird how all four of you have the same profile pick, with the same person in it, but all have different names.
I just love how in the end this tier list resembles a normal distribution, makes me believe in statistical theories even more lol
He was trying to make Gaussian distribution with physicists 😂
I just started reading the Feynman Lectures on physics and wow... It took me 3 paragraphs to love him so deeply. xD F for ma boii Feynman.
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Have a look around the torrents you'll find almost complete audio recordings of them zipped up. I used to fall asleep listening to them, then read the lecture the next day, they gave me a massive boost in my first year.
gotta include newton. S tier. Insane. Imagine coming up with the concepts of most of our physical observables without almost any of the scaffolding there before you. Like energy seems like an intuitive concept now, but how the hell would you come up with that if no one had explained it to you?
Einstein woulda put Maxwell higher :/
Among the three greatest men who ever lived
For me, they are
NEWTON
EINSTEIN
EULER
Imagine if you put Feynman in F tier as a meme and lost literally every single one of your subscribers overnight.
I can totally relate with your excitement towards wanting to understand what all those more advanced formulas were about because that's exactly how I feel when I watch your tensor calculus series xD
Hi. My name is Professor Layman, and I only watched up to 1:40 so far. I have no formal higher education, but I've always been interested in physics nonetheless. My self education is limited to like a half-dozen books and like a half-dozen hours of YT videos. I somehow never heard of RPF until like 5 years ago, but I was instantly intrigued. After reading some of his stuff (You must be joking, etc) he quickly became not only my favorite physicist, but also my role model and spiritual master xD
The point is, I practically cheered when you put him alone in S-tier. :D I'll watch the rest now. Thanks for reading :)
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“That now makes two types of currents I don’t know how to build circuits out of.” This got me, as a PHYS major currently in a circuits class.
I think my only S would be Maxwell only for the fact that his equations in differential form looked so cool It made me want to learn calc 1 2 3 and differential equations in 2nd year of high school just so I can understand them.
Before this video even loaded I was thinking that you better put Feynman as S tier. You're doing holy work with this video.
Excuse me, Neil Degrass Tyson ?
I trusted you. Not only did you put Hawking above Noether , you put them all on the same level as some.. big mouthed know it all
He's alive
You're telling me it's possible to be a theorist and an experimentalist at the same time? Where do I sign up?
My list is the same as yours except for Wheeler; I put him in C so my list is normally distributed
Thank you Andrew, very cool
I respect your ranking. I especially like where you put Noether, and what you said about her. Her theorem is a rare deep statement about the very nature of reality.
I think my list, which is more based on my level of respect rather than their actual influence on me, would start something like this:
S: Newton
A: Einstein, Noether
B: Feynman, Dirac, Maxwell
C: Boltzmann, Schrodinger, Bohr, Hypatia
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I would've put Einstein in S as trivially as it sounds. He contributed so much... Photoelectric effect, Special Theory of Relativity, interaction between matter and radiation, thermodynamics. And GENERAL RELATIVITY. This latter subject is soooo underrated among physicists. It's the best theory which describes gravity, and the whole idea behind that is just a conceptual hop that has no match, even in the gauge theories. Feynmann as a person was great, and was also a great physicist since able to simplify complex concepts, but Einstein has done just an incredible job. He gave us a way to unravel the time and go back to the beginning, his theory has encoded such esotic objects as black holes, and he didn't even observe one (he did actually not believe such objects could be physically possible, such was their weirdness). Just by plugging in the energy and pressure of some object, the theory predicts how light bends. SR and GR gave us the insight that only a portion of our universe is causally accessible to us, and this is mind-blowing. Feynmann is the greatest in making Physics learnable, Einstein is just the greatest theoretical physicist has ever lived.
Pretty sure all of the 9 engineers (including me) watching your video freaked out when you put Tesla at D rank.
Only Newton and Einstein were revolutionary enough for S tier.
No Boltzmann
I thought h was given to us by Max Plank, but he didn't know what he had. He thought it was just a mathematical trick to solve the ultraviolet catastrophe. Then Albert Einstein in his first publication on the photo electric effect said no, it's real Max, light is quantized. Albert won a Nobel prize for that paper.
@@dreggory82 well Planck used h as a proportionality constant. It was later after Heisenberg uncertainty principle was discovered that people realised the constant Gibbs used to derive the partition function was effectively the same since part of the process was to take the limit ∆x∆p/h→dxdp/h in order to switch the sum to an integral.
@ that's what I said tho
Stephen Hawking and Einstein would definitely be in S for me, there the reason I took Physics and Maths at A-Level and although I’ve strayed away from pure physics (Electronic Engineering Student) id definitely not be where I am now if it wasn’t for the countless Stephen Hawkins space documentaries I watched while I was growing up or trying to use E = mc^2 as a 12 year old who was still struggling to solve quadratic equations
The LorenTz force is a consequence of the lenght contraction, which is a consequence of the Lorentz Transformations.
Loved this video. Hope you will post again🙂
Where my boi Lev Landau
He did not encounter the Course with a capital 'C'.
Coming back three years later, as someone much closer to being a proper mathematician this is a very different video lmao. Interestingly enough, in terms of the rankings of the mathematicians (Noether, Lagrange, Hamilton...) I would say the ranking still holds. Except, Lagrange definitely should be A or B. But I am an algebraist and thus biased.
WHERE IS MY POOR GUY BOLTZMAN???
Along with Heisenberg, he is S-tier.
Countless students hold a grudge due to his association with "sadistical mechanics"
*_D I R A C_*
There's something about his name, it sounds intriguing
Dude Einstein should stand above all. You will never outgrow him, look at pretty much any branch of physics and you will see his name. The amount of stuff he did was amazing.
I mean, I would have added Neil bohr to the list,
S: Newton, Einstein
You can rank the rest wherever you’d like.
I think that much is certain.
I believe Feynman was inspired to work on quantum electrodynamics after reading Dirac's book. He definitely deserves high placement for calling out the GOAT
NO BEARD
S tier feels more like a cultural (to a certain extent, national pride) tier. It's the tier where you put the physicist that most heavily influences (the childhood hero so to speak) people in your country/region/etc.
In the English-speaking world (especially west of the Atlantic), it's Feynman; For the Russians, it's probably the likes of Landau (always mentioned by my Russian colleagues); French; Chinese; Indians; etc.
"Michio kaku" had already left everything..
He is a joke
@@yaoooy why?
Some one told me James clerk Maxwell is the most underrated physicist of all time ,but he did so much for the modern world , i mean look around ...To me as an Engineer he is the most important scientist ever..
I think that Newton might be useful for you engineers. What are you going to do without calculus? How are you going to build bridges, etc? But yeah ! Maxwell !! And he was the best guy there.
@@rlkinnard Just going to point out that if newton hadnt been there we still would have had leibniz and thus calculus.
I’d definitely get a shirt that says “Feynman is my mom.” Just sayin’. ;)
I don't know if you ranked them on the basis of their contribution or on the basis of " who is my favourite " no one and "literally" no one can put plank, Maxwell and Einstein below fienmann( his work become possible because of all three of them).
Andrew: *blurs thumbnail so I can't see ranking*
Me: *Hovers over to preview*
Andrew: *Surprised pikachu face*
the cool thing is that this tier list looks like a normal distribution curve
I swear if feynman isnt s tier...
You managed to offend me in just 1:13 mins by not including Landau
Thats it andrew, after the years of watching you across 3 accounts, its finally over. I cannot support someone who bases their physics tier list on personal impact rather than their sex appeal. 0/10 unsubscribed, reported, and beaned. Im so ashamed!
I agree that Emmy Noether is A tier. Her theorem is the cornerstone of all of physics. Everything in physics can be understood in terms of symmetries and symmetry breaking.
well said
Ranking physicists and not including Newton. You seem like someone who really knows physics.
Smooch Pooch the thing is Newton is great but is also a douche, Andrew is probably rating them to his liking haha
@@AdrianChia531 No, he only used their achievements in the field of physics as a measurement in his whole video. And when it comes to achievements and contributions to physics, all the people he ranked here seem like little kids playing on the backyard when comparing them to Newton.
@ Newton built everything from the ground. What the hell are you talking about? He discovered gravity, the laws of movement, the law of Energy conservation, the laws of work and action. He ivented calculus for christ sake. Not to mention his contributions to optik. He first discovered of what light cosists. You have absolutely no idea about physics. Einstein discovered the Photo-effect, solely on behalf of Planks work. He discovered SR, mainly based on the works of Maxwell and Lorenz. Then his Magnus Opus: GR. Mainly based on the works of Riemann and Minkowski. The today known inplications from GR are not even discovered by Einstein. The first Solutions of the Einsteins field equations are done by Schwarzschild. And after Quantum mechanics was discovered, he basically published just trash because he thought Quantum mechanics was wrong. After GR he contributed zero to physics. Now, this may sound all negative, but I am of course not denying his genious, since he was great at combining existing ideas. He was probably the best at it. But he was nowhere near the genious of Newton who came up with basically the whole physics. Sure, the math is easier in newton mechanics than GR, but the complexity of math is not a measurement wheather someone is smarter than the other. Math is just a tool used to describe reality. And by the way: Newton discovered with calculus the biggest field in mathematics (alongside with Leibnitz), while Einstein sended his papers to mathematicians because he was not able to solve the equations by its own. In his paper to SR his ex-wife did most of the math. That much as who was the better mathematician.
Tesla was an engineer so obviously he wouldn't really be an inspiration to most theoretical physicist. But his electric motor ohh my God it's the cradle of modern mechanical engineering.
Perfectly balanced. As all things should be.
the best format
for me btw s-Tier is definitely Hamilton for the Hamilton principle, it gives just such an essential connection between maths and phsics in my opinion and Einstein of corse, no words needed.
That’s a pretty nice bell curve lol
I clicked on this only because, I was curious in what place have you put Feynman. Wasn't disappointed.
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I would have included 1) De Broglie and along with 2) Newton, 3) Boltzmann, 4) Einstein, 5) Bohr, 6) Schrödinger and 7) Plank they would be in S tier for me. Their profound insight that they shared with humanity has changed my life more than anything. Can you imagine living in a world where they have never existed or didn't make any contributions to science? What a sad world that would be.
Feynmann made me love physics, education, teaching and learning.
Those Seven made me love the universe.
I dont understand why S is before A. Is S the secret 0th letter of the alphabet, and why so arbitrarily? But S is the 19th letter of the alphabet. So, since 0 and 19 are equivalent, is the alphabet really a circle mod 19? So that means A is equivalent to T, B to U, C to V, etc. But why this? Why did we make equivalent letters for A through G (T through Z), and then stop? What if I want to find the equivalent of L, or some shit? So is Z not really the end of the alphabet?! What the shit is this madness??!!?!? Thanks for nothing, Earth.
S for super. SS is for super super, SSS is for super super super etc.
Ed witten with a h index of 192: "Am I a joke to you?"
Others: " We can't prove it experimentally."
Papa Dotson still looks sexy even without the beard. ❤️
Missing Physicist (Chemist) - Josiah Willard Gibbs - wrote the foundation of Statistical Mechanics, Free Energy & thermodynamics, Vector Algebra (which gives us the Maxwell Equations as we know them), supported the slaves from the ship Amistad.
You didn't include Heisenberg... I'm sad... And angry
The nazi guy????
Newton?
I really likes your laptop, Which model?
Neumann? that guy had brain superpowers. or he was rather a mathematician
He should be next to Lagrange and Noether in honorary mathematician S tier.
I’m extremely triggered by Lagrange not being S tier and Maxwell not being A.