For me it was absolutely Fermi. And Feynman and Teller. But Oppenheimer definitely up there. Oh also Leo fucking Szilard! From wikipedia ... > He conceived t

For me it was absolutely Fermi. And Feynman and Teller. But Oppenheimer definitely up there. Oh also Leo fucking Szilard! From wikipedia ... > He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea in 1936, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.