SteelyKid’s day care is closed today, meaning that I will be spending the day chasing her in circles in a variety of different places. this doesn’t allow a lot of blogging time, so you get a poll to pass the time.
We’ll go back to the historical physics thing for this one. The following poll lists a bunch of less-well-known physicists (that is, not Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, Pauli, etc.) who contributed to the development of quantum mechanics. Which of them was the best?
While these are quantum pioneers, we’re still working in the individual physicist basis. Linear combinations of two or more physicists are not observable, and thus not acceptable choices.
(This is even more hastily assembled than usual, so I’m sure I’ve forgotten some worthy candidates. If I’ve left your own personal hero off the list, rest assured that it was haste and carelessness, not malice.)