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Something that is hard to mention but is worth knowing is that Hawking is not at the leading edge of his field.
by boxcardavin 11y ago
Something that is hard to mention but is worth knowing is that Hawking is not at the leading edge of his field.
- iso8859-1 11y agoHow do you know this?
- T-A 11y agoMaybe from the "Einstein index"? [1] [1] http://www.science20.com/hammock_physicist/who_todays_einstein_exercise_ranking_scientists-75928 http://www.science20.com/hammock_physicist/who_todays_einste...
- Steko 11y agoSo top 7 =/= leading edge?
- T-A 11y agoTop 7 among those whom the author chose to compute his "Einstein index" for. Something not accounted for by that illustration is age ~ proportion of realized potential. Maldacena is 47, Randall 53; no longer promising youngsters, but with decades of index-climbing potential left in them. Weinberg and Glashow are both 82, and owe the bulk of their index position to work done in the 60s and 70s. Witten is 64 and peaked in the 80s and early 90s. Polyakov is 69; for him it's 70s and 80s. Hawking is 73. His index-driving contribution is black hole evaporation, from 1974. After that, he's mainly been a popularizer.
- boxcardavin 11y agoUndergrad in physics, still keep up with my PhD physics pals.