The case for and against genius
Fabrizio J. Bonsignore wrote:
Why? If no why, not a valid reply...
Because you are dead wrong that is why. There were dozens of seminal
geniuses in physics in the decade from 1900-1935, when quantum theory
was new. Of those I can reel off a few. Bohr, Heisenberg, Schroedinger,
Jordan, Born, Dirac, De Broglie, Pauli. And that is just a subset of
the theoretical types that I can think of off the top of my head.
Quantum theory was not the work of single genius as was relativity
theory. Quantum theory is where the young boys went. They called it "Kid
Physics" in those days because of the young men who participated, many
in their twenties.
Look up Solvay Conference on Google and see who attended.
Bob Kolker
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