Ask HN: Who are the Feynmans, Sagans and Attenboroughs of our time?

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I’ll nominate Professor Brian Greene as another. He puts space, time, and systems thinking into perspective.

Matt o'Dowd of PBS Spacetime on youtube.

Seriously, the time of Physics and the Standard Model is passed. The few people of those generations who are still working on fundamental physics are indiscriminately bad communicators, lost in their thoughts, and slightly bitter because of the fruitlessness of their field in recent decades. There is a general lack of enthusiasm to communicate science with the public due to the lack of wholly interesting new stories to tell, and frankly, reciting how weird quantum physics is for the 10000000th time is no longer exciting. Biology has some interesting stories that i feel are not being told though.

That depends on how much your time skews my time away from the originals being those people.

Indeed. These were the people that made an impression on me as a kid. I guess my question is, who currently has the ability to do the same (and can do so for whatever generation)?

On TV in the early to mid 80's these were people were able to create a sense of awe in millions of people with their intelligence and eloquence.

Who are the Feynmans, Sagans and Attenboroughs of our time?

I'll nominate Professor Brian Cox to start things off...

Jim Al-Khalili

Richard Curtis

Maybe Cox, he is a little prone to dogma.

Sean Carroll

Leonard Susskind

Edward Witten

Terence Tao

edward witten

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