Surely You're POLL-ing, Mr Feynman (Best HAIR in PHYSICS)

Right, let's have some pics, in no particular order.

PAUL DIRAC:

http://www.anarchistecouronne.com/2100science/2220physicists/images/paul_dirac3.jpg

RICHARD FEYNMAN:

http://140.203.154.209/~vit/resources/2009/img/feynman.jpg

MAX PLANCK:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Max_Planck_1878.GIF

Heisenberg:

http://reich-chemistry.wikispaces.com/file/view/HSwerner.jpg/31485803/HSwerner.jpg

https://www.windows2universe.org/people/images/heisenberg.gif

Baby Dirac, aaaaawwwwww...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HidON146Uf0/SqysF9DXBfI/AAAAAAAABgE/tj0b-GIAE_A/s320/Paul+Dirac+-+1907.jpg

Leo Szilard:

http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/199811/images/leo_slizard.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/eo/1/1a/Leo_Szilard.jpg

Murray Gell-Mann, showing some fine particle wave formations in his forelock:

http://www.havelshouseofhistory.com/Gell-Mann,%20Murray.jpg

Erwin Schrödinger (his spectacles were STYLIN')

http://reich-chemistry.wikispaces.com/file/view/Erwin_schrodinger1.jpg/45013337/Erwin_schrodinger1.jpg

Niels Bohr

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media/images/1186.jpg

old einstein is presumably the sgt pepper's of this poll

Is Dirac's hair in the form of his eponymous wave equation?

Could have gone with 17th century non-wig wearing (because he was a bit common) natural scientist Robert Hooke

http://www.nndb.com/people/356/000087095/robert-hooke-1.jpg

Think Dirac's hair rather too asymmetical for that, Ed.

I cheated a bit in splitting Young & Old Einstein up, but otherwise I fear he would have swept the boards. Plus, young, dapper Einstein was so unbelievably handsome (proving Hawkwind totally RONG)

http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Images/albert-einstein-young-1.jpg

x-post I tend to think of Hooke as a Naturalist and therefore a stamp collecting BOTANIST but good point about the wig.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Avogadro_Amedeo.jpg

Amedeo Avogadro ftw

I mean, come on...

http://web.gc.cuny.edu/sciart/0405/images/Einstein_s.jpg

More Dirac

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7245/images/459326a-i1.0.jpg

http://content.answcdn.com/main/content/img/scitech/HSpaulad.jpg

I have never seen a depiction of Avogadro before. He looks like Gollum! At least he doesn't look like a mole.

Actually, James Clerk Maxwell before the beard had some fabulous kiss curls going on...

http://www.clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/assets/images/maxwell_j_c_as_a_young_man.jpg

His beard though, is a wonder to behold:

http://www.clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/assets/images/db_images/db_MaxwellTrinity1r4.jpg

Avogadro looks like a skinny Blixa Bargeld.

HA HAHAHAHAHHAHAA oh god no he doesn't. But I kinda see what you mean.

The whole Clerk Maxwell "picture viewer" is great (fantastic beardage) but this childhood picture - OMG THE OWL!!!

http://www.clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/html/picture_viewer_2.html

Feynman, with bongos:

http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/feynman.bongos.jpg

^^^^^^TOTAL HEPCAT

A childhood of choking frightened owls gives one certain....abilities...later in life.

Feel kind of ripped off that Robert Van de Graaff has the most boring hair ever.

http://www.nndb.com/people/824/000099527/rudolf-mossbauer-1.jpg

Rudolph Mossbauer

In Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, he gives advice on the best way to pick up a girl in a hostess bar. At Caltech, he used a nude/topless bar as an office away from his usual office, making sketches or writing physics equations on paper placemats.

http://www.physics.fsu.edu/images/photos/personnel/GorkovLev.jpg

Lev Gor'kov

I think I'm going to have nightmares about that owl.

Yeah, I was hoping Van de Graaff was third from right in the FRONT row (that is some good hair) but unfortunately he is third from right in the back row.

http://www.jemisonfarms.com/broker_images/jemisonfarmscom/images/u_of_a_team.jpg

The man did have balls, though...

http://bama.ua.edu/~hep/vandegraaff.gif

Rudolph Mossbauer

Why, HELLO THERE...

OMG, that Mossbauer is beautifulllllll...

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1961/mossbauer.jpg

http://www.aip.org/history/newsletter/spring2008/images/oppenheimer-robert-b26-lg.jpg

look at this fucken physicist

In Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, he gives advice on the best way to pick up a girl in a hostess bar. At Caltech, he used a nude/topless bar as an office away from his usual office, making sketches or writing physics equations on paper placemats.

I hate to admit it, but this would totally have worked on me. o_0

http://varatek.com/scott/safe.jpg

I agree, caek, Oppenheimer was one FINE-LOOKING man, but his hair was boring as fuck. Look at the other physicists on this list!

May have posted this before, but whatevs...

The breakthrough came on summer trips Dyson made in 1948, traveling around America by Greyhound bus and also, for four days, in a car with Feynman. Feynman was driving to Albuquerque, and Dyson joined him just for the pleasure of riding alongside “a unique person who had such an amazing combination of gifts.” The irrepressible Feynman and the “quiet and dignified English fellow,” as Feynman described Dyson, picked up gypsy hitchhikers; took shelter from an Oklahoma flood in the only available hotel they could find, a brothel, where Feynman pretended to sleep and heard Dyson relieve himself in their room sink rather than risk the common bathroom in the hall; spoke of Feynman’s realization that he had enjoyed military work on the Manhattan Project too much and therefore could do it no more; and talked about Feynman’s ideas in a way that made Dyson forever understand what the nature of true genius is. Dyson wanted to unify one big theory; Feynman was out to unify all of physics. Inspired by this and by a mesmerizing sermon on nonviolence that Dyson happened to hear a traveling divinity student deliver in Berkeley, Dyson sat aboard his final Greyhound of the summer, heading East. He had no pencil or paper. He was thinking very hard. On a bumpy stretch of highway, long after dark, somewhere out in the middle of Nebraska, Dyson says, “Suddenly the physics problem became clear.” What Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga were doing was stylistically different, but it was all “fundamentally the same.”

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/physics/images/learning15.jpg

I thought about including Oppenheimer but I simply could not find a picture of him with a decent hairdo.

x-post OK wait. That's some great hair.

prefer his badass high and tight hair cut (via usaf) to all these flock of seagulls do's meself

Tesla knew how to smoulder

http://www.electronicsandyou.com/electronics-history/Nikola%20Tesla.jpg

ed witten (greatest living physicist) v. disappointing

http://preposterousuniverse.com/images/wittenbullhorn.jpg

I think, of all of them, Feynman would certainly be the most fun to hang out with.

I mean, Dirac is beautiful and haunted and lovely, but apparently he was super aspie geek who never spoke and was terrified of girls so I'd be SOL. ;_;

Tesla was a total hottie, but I thought of him more of an inventor than a physicist so I didn't include him.

http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_05_img0296.jpg

^ hans geiger, combover extremist

feynman reminds me of gordon gecko to be honest.

http://www.wakemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/a_serious_man16.jpg

What, in looks or in attitude?

Don't disabuse me of notions of his coolness, I grew up with my dad worshiping him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Fr%C3%B6hlich.jpg

^ Herbert Fröhlich, people we have a winner

Damn...

http://www.liv.ac.uk/science_eng_images/physics/frohlich/frohlich.jpg

oh in looks not attitude. actually more generally michael douglas.

kinda grossed out by photos of him in a tshirt in his sixties hanging out on campus.

http://media.daemonsmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/solitaryman_movie04-550x367.jpg

OK, how about in a formal shirt instead of a t-shirt?

http://www.theironsamurai.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/richard-feynman.jpg

ingore me. got no hair. i'm just jealous

Wow. Part Gelfling, I believe.

http://stkarnick.com/culture/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Freeman-Dyson.jpg

(sorry, inspired by that other thread)

ears and nose just never stopped growing with that guy

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/03/29/magazine/29dyson.1-500.jpg

Rutherford

Young
http://www.odt.co.nz/files/story/2008/12/ernest_rutherford_1122022732.jpg

Older
http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/rutherford/graphics/rutherford.jpg

Pierre had some interestingly geometrical hair, mind you...

http://wal.nbed.nb.ca/sciencesettechnologies/pierrebrideau/pcurie.jpg

::facepalm::

totally forgot Rutherford

Also, those strangely pointed ears!

If you're talking facial hair, Becquerel had the most awesome centre-parting on his beard:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/becquerel.jpg

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8777381378502286852#

Did Henrietta Leavitt have a better Physics Bun?

http://www.museumofflight.org/files/imagecache/lightbox/HenriettaLeavitt02.jpg

OK, technically AstronomyBun but I'm prepared to bend the rules for her.

http://dbeveridge.web.wesleyan.edu/wescourses/2001f/chem160/01/Who%27s%20Who/de_Broglie.jpeg

^ Louis de Broglie

i like this hans bethe cut that figures out the optimal way to show off his huge forehead full of physicist brain

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Hans_Bethe.jpg

http://www.scientific-web.com/en/Physics/Biographies/images/Jean_Baptiste_Perrin.jpg

^ Jean Baptiste Perrin

OK, he's an actual Duke. He wins at life. x-post x2 to the Duc de Broglie

Yeah - wealth, brains, a title, lived to a ripe old age... I may never attain any of these things, but I do at least have a decent barber.

Also, Hans Bethe wins points for not just sitting at the control desk but CYCLING around a Synchrotron:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/images/HansBethe.jpg

^^^ future of the London Underground after budget cuts

How about this for physics hair?
http://www.artsjournal.com/artopia/Porterdos.jpg

(Admittedly taken long after his scientific career had been supplanted by his artistic one, but he was a proper physicist, so I say it counts.)

WD may be more into his younger, more sciencey days, though:
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5dmeqSnZt1qbvhs7.jpg

Damn, how did those early physicists *do* that waveform hair? It's amazing.

look at this fucken physicist

― caek, Monday, November 8, 2010 2:57 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

not fucking kidding

Would vote for Hans Bethe because my dad took a couple classes from him back at Cornell.

since he died there are trying to define a new derived unit 1 Bethe = 10^44 Joules

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Hans_Bethe.jpghttp://www.funwithfilms.com/images/this-island-earth1.jpg

What is the significance of 10^44 Joules other than being a fuck of a lot of energy?

it's the typical energy output of a type 1a supernova

bethe won his nobel for "contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars"

there's an article explaining the unit naming idea here: http://physicsworldarchive.iop.org/index.cfm?action=summary&doc=19/2/phwv19i2a31%40pwa-xml&qt=. i will upload it tomorrow if i can get it at work.

this was good iirc: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/science/08bethe.html

Surely George Gamow

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:GamovGA_1930.jpg

If only for having the sheer gall to cite, as the list of authors on one of his more important papers: Alpher, Bethe(in absentia), Gamow...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/GamovGA_1930.jpg

For some reason that wouldn't link properly the first time...

http://blog.makezine.com/planck.jpg

Not seeing Low-era Bowie so much as Music Box-era Stan Laurel.

Oliver Heaviside, flattest head in science:
http://web.mit.edu/8.03-esg/watkins/8.03/texf/Heaviside.jpeg

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, looking exactly like Nikki Sudden in youth and middle age:

http://i54.tinypic.com/15x3ehh.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/2lkxpbt.jpg

William Rankine on a Moses Tip

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Rankine_William_signature.jpg

God damn, I want a beard. I could have been a famous physicist, if only I had a beard.

The Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper always made me giggle in books about the Big Bang.

I have left out so much great hair, I may have to run the poll again.

http://i53.tinypic.com/2rf96o5.png

At what point does Physics Hair overlap with the dreaded IRISH HAIR?

http://www.planetdamage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/moran.jpg

http://www.atmos.albany.edu/deas/bvonn/BV_THphoto.jpg

Bernard Vonnegut, atmospheric physicist, inventor of cloud seeding, winner of an Ig Nobel Prize for an article entitled "Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed", and big brother of some dude called Kurt.

I haven't enjoyed a poll so much in a long time!

I probably should start thinking about actually voting in mine own poll. Damn. So many choices!

I think, aesthetically, whose hair would I like to see stylishly topping my own head, that would probably be Planck.

But, like, I keep getting distracted by say, who I'd really like to hang around with (totally Feynman) or, who I'd call in if I had a pressing problem that needed solving (Dirac).

Amedeo Avogadro looks like Mark E Smith.

xp my own hair is currently somewhere between Bohr and beach bum older Feynman. Eventually it'll look like Fermi's.

So I voted Feynman, both as who I'd like to hang out with, and whose hair I'd like.

I think I'm undoubtedly being swayed by the fact that Dirac was such a hottie. I mean, his *eyes*.

He has that kind of "I can see through TIME" intensity to his stare.

Also famously taciturn. I like the idea of a "Dirac" being a unit expressed as one word per hour.

Amedeo Avogadro looks like Mark E Smith.

The could definitely use him as a last minute stand-in. Wonder if they have his number?

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Ha ha ha, oh that is the best site I've read in ages.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/pinker.html

^^^^too bad I didn't widen the scientific field coz we have a winner here.

bahaha, that little row of lookalike guys in front of him.

IMO the do itself only works on Marc Bolan.

Love the Aphex looking dude who views his hair as "protection from radiation, especially cosmic rays"

http://improbable.com/airchives/press/2004/thes-2004-02-27.pdf

I have decided to vote with my libido, and Paul Dirac's Superasymmetic Particle Wave formation in the first post gets my tip.

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