Timeline for Has there been an equivalent in physics to Ramanujan in maths?
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| Aug 8, 2021 at 20:41 | comment | added | Cosmas Zachos | This might well place him peculiarly above them in terms of scholarship and impact. I knew him. He was a maverick, but not an outsider, by far. | |
| Aug 8, 2021 at 20:40 | comment | added | Cosmas Zachos | I fear Freeman would not qualify as "without a scholarly education"; he was the ultimate Cambridge Brahmin, with an excessively good formal education. As his advisor Hans Bethe appreciated, he more than satisfied the Cornell requirements for a PhD; he satisfied requirements to get professorships at Cornell, the IAS, ... His collecting honorary PhDs instead of "earning" a formal PhD was an affectation on his part, as in "See? I solve problems: I don't collect degrees!") He explained QED as a QFT, making him the linchpin of the work of the S-T-F trio that shared the Nobel for it. | |
| Aug 3, 2021 at 22:35 | history | edited | Ingolifs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 3, 2021 at 20:21 | history | answered | Ingolifs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |