Witten was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1988. In an informal poll at a 1990 cosmology conference, Witten received the largest number of mentions as "the smartest living physicist".
Who is the most intelligent physicist?
1. Stephen Hawking (IQ: 160-170) Pure genius, this astrophysicist!
Who is the greatest physicist ever?
According to a poll of scientists conducted by Physics World magazine (December 1999),the top ten physicists in history are as follows:
- Albert Einstein.
- Isaac Newton.
- James Clerk Maxwell.
- Niels Bohr.
- Werner Heisenberg.
- Galileo Galilei.
- Richard Feynman.
- Paul Dirac.
