The Greatest Quantum Computing Scientist of All Time
Ranking scientists has always been a common topic of debate: Einstein, Newton, Boltzmann, Euler, Darwin, Curie, Freud, ...
This fascination with ranking individuals clearly arises from the way history has always been written—emphasizing the actions of key figures: Pericles, Alexander the Great, Constantine, ...
We see similar questions everywhere:
Who is the greatest philosopher of all time?
Who is the greatest chess player of all time?
Who is the greatest athlete of all time?
Personally, I find ranking scientists in this way rather pointless.
However, such rankings reveal something interesting: the values and sentiments of the scientific community.
For example, if you tell me that Dirac is the greatest physicist of the 20th century,
I understand that you prioritize quantum mechanical transformations—from particle physics to quantum computing—over singularities in spacetime or the large-scale structure of the universe.
That’s exactly what I want to explore with this poll: a small experiment in quantum computing sentiment analysis.
In these rankings, having a Nobel Prize often places scientists at the top.
More recently, the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has also gained credibility in the scientific community.
In 2022, Peter Shor, and David Deutsch were awarded the Breakthrough Prize for their contributions to quantum computing.
They are undoubtedly among the most important scientists in the field.
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