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Scottish physicist who formulated the Maxwell equations — unifying electricity, magnetism, and light as a single electromagnetic field — the greatest theoretical achievement in physics between Newton and Einstein.
German physicist who founded quantum theory in 1900 — proposing that energy is emitted in discrete quanta rather than continuous waves — initiating the quantum revolution and receiving the Nobel Prize in 1918.
German theoretical physicist and author of Lost in Math who argues that modern theoretical physics has gone astray by valuing mathematical beauty over empirical testability — becoming the most prominent scientific critic of string theory and supersymmetry.