Greatest Physicsts of All-Time: Top 25

NOTE: These rankings are only my opinion, obviously, as with rankings in sports, there will be lots of comments and critcism to what follows. I mostly based the rankings off of the importance of how each of the physiciscts advanced the field of physics, which every person here has done greatly.

1. Albert Einstein

2. Isaac Newton

3. James Clerk Maxwell

4. Paul Dirac

5. Niels Bohr

6. Werner Heisenberg

7. Galileo Galilei

8. Erwin Schrodinger

9. Stephen Hawking

10. Richard Feynmann

11. Ludwing Boltzmann

12. Nicholas Copernicus

13. Max Planck

14. Robert Oppenheimer

15. Louise de Brogile

16. Wolfgang Pauli

17. Archimedes

18. Stephen Weinberg

19. Enrico Fermi

20. Vera Rubin

21. Ernest Rutherford

22. Max Born

23. Roger Penrose

24. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

25. Peter Higgs

HONORABLE MENTIONS (in no particular order): Nathan Rosen, Hugh Everett, Michio Kaku, Lord Kelvin, Michael Faraday, Sean Carroll, Alan Guth, Johannes Kepler, Robert Hooke, Boris Poldosky