Top 10 best physicist : 10. You 9. can't 8. rank physicist. 7. They all 6. did major 5. contribution 4. in their 3. respective 2. field. 1. Feynmann

It's approximately a Gaussian distribution

"I put Tesla for fan service" *in D tier he goes*

"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

Did I just watch a video of Low Sample Size Normal Distribution Simulation?

Experimental nuclear physics Andrew Dotson - tier F Tensor boi Andrew Dotson - SSSS

"Feynman is my mom." - Andrew Dotson, 2019. He's my dad. Guess we are brothers

*puts tesla in D* Every Engineer: You’re wrong

Where is NEWTON, the supreme all father, god of us ALL.

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.

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.

"Feynman is my mom". Could get a bit awkward with Pappa Flammy.

Clever move leaving off Gauss so you could skip SS tier

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.

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.

Ranking undergraduate physics courses

Newton: Gravity is a magical force that no one knows why its there. Einstein: 4:49

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!

"Because it's like... I love tensors" - no undergrad student, ever

>physicists >Lagrange, Hamilton, Emmy Noether Bruh moment

Happy (π + ћ)th of July Andrew!

Damn, so my boy Boltzmann got out shined by Tesla. He would literally kill himself if he found that out.

Puts a mathematician on the list, but forgets our Lord and savior leonhard boiler. Straight SS tier my guy

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.

I was hoping you would rank them according to impact. Please consider doing a video where you rank Physicists by impact.

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.

Oh I see. You were using a beard to hide the chub

Personally I would’ve had Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr on that list!!

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

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 😂

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 :)

Could you make a second video on other physicists like Newton or Galileo? It would be noice

"no beard" comments in 3...2...1....

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!

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

RIP Stephen Hawking probably the funniest Physicist to ever do stand up #legend

He was trying to make Gaussian distribution with physicists 😂

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.

Thank you Andrew, very cool

I just love how in the end this tier list resembles a normal distribution, makes me believe in statistical theories even more lol

My list is the same as yours except for Wheeler; I put him in C so my list is normally distributed

Thanks for ranking me so high - I really enjoy being high.

Before this video even loaded I was thinking that you better put Feynman as S tier. You're doing holy work with this video.

“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.

One person in S-tier?? Feynman.... go ahead and neglect everyone else!

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.

Fourth (of July)! Your videos are the best! Keep it up! :)

Did you switch courses, from biology to physics, or did a second bachelor? I finished economics this year and I am thinking of either doing a Masters or study physics What are your thoughts on this?

Einstein woulda put Maxwell higher :/

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

good video idea, you can make tier lkst for most cancerous subjects (thermodynamics and rigid body mechanics im looking at you!) or hardest or coolest

It's funny how your list with your focus on theory is so different from my list as an experimental physicist. I'm trying not to start my own list, because I will for sure waste too much time on it. :D

I'd have Einstein in S tier, he's the GOAT imo. I stan him what can I say?

Where my boi Lev Landau

the best format

I really likes your laptop, Which model?

The LorenTz force is a consequence of the lenght contraction, which is a consequence of the Lorentz Transformations.

Neumann? that guy had brain superpowers. or he was rather a mathematician

Hey Andrew. Can you give me some tips on starting physics. I start university next September and I want somewhat prepare

too close to 100k, yay congratulation

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.

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 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).

69k SUBS ... CONGRATULATIONS

Ranking physicists and not including Newton. You seem like someone who really knows physics.

you forgot Landau, the man who literally spent his time assigning ratings to physicists

aren't the lorentz force and lorentz transformation from the same guy? or am i mistaken

I clicked on this only because, I was curious in what place have you put Feynman. Wasn't disappointed.

That’s a pretty nice bell curve lol

*_D I R A C_* There's something about his name, it sounds intriguing

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?

You're telling me it's possible to be a theorist and an experimentalist at the same time? Where do I sign up?

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.

what does s in top tier stand for?

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.

Andrew: *blurs thumbnail so I can't see ranking* Me: *Hovers over to preview* Andrew: *Surprised pikachu face*

No Boltzmann

Peter Scott at UC Santa Cruz introduced me to non-linear systems and chaos in 1983 Classical Mechanics course while analysing and demonstrating the Duffing Oscillator. He put the "WOW" back into Physics: non-linear, macroscopic mechanical objects are intractable! It looks like we'll be busy for a while.

Here because of keystone science... this is the first video of yours I'm going to watch, I suspect its going to be a controversial one 👍

I’d definitely get a shirt that says “Feynman is my mom.” Just sayin’. ;)

WHERE IS MY POOR GUY BOLTZMAN???

Ummm biochem major here, I get the most of your list, but why no Newton? Were his contributions not that impactful after all?

Andrew, I'm facing a dilemma. As much as a I want pi to equal 3, at the end of the day, it just doesn't. What I'm trying to say is, I'm an engineering student, but I feel like I would be more passionate about studying physics. I'm not sure what to do

Papa Dotson still looks sexy even without the beard. ❤️

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 :)

have you read the Feynman biographical comic Andrew? check it out

Lorendz I believe was the one who said that the magnetic field of a magnetic object, when you put it in a magnetic field will B less than the one the field generates

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

"Michio kaku" had already left everything..

the guy who wrote my physics 1 and 2 book. He knew everything.

Where would u have put newton?

I swear if feynman isnt s tier...

Imagine if you put Feynman in F tier as a meme and lost literally every single one of your subscribers overnight.

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

Is Tesla negligible?

Pretty sure all of the 9 engineers (including me) watching your video freaked out when you put Tesla at D rank.

>Planck godfather of QM >has a constant named after him >B tier WAT

That is a Walter Greiner book on the sofa right ?

Honestly, this is a good ranking.