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Originally Posted by DaFace

I'm certainly no authority on the most prominent physicists, but I have to imagine that there are quite a few guys out there doing really great work. Hawking was brilliant, but he gained a lot of celebrity due to his condition that elevated awareness of his work. Nothing wrong with that, but it's more an issue of who the next guy will be to really keep the public's imagination than who is actually making key discoveries.

Al Gore of course