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Sticking Hawking and Tesla in with Bose and Poincare is .... eccentric. It's not a popularity contest.

Fun fact: one of Bose's grandsons worked as a bartender at Triple Rock in Berkeley for a while.

I mean, Tesla was as ubiquitous (if not more) in my EE degree as Bose and Poincare were in my Physics degree. I don't think I heard Hawking mentioned once during my Physics degree but I also didn't care to take any astronomy coursework.

Hawking was a cosmologist not an astronomer. It would have come in any class covering advanced black hole theory.

Hawking came up a decent number of times in my astronomy/astrophysics classes. Hubble came up everywhere.

Yeah, I sort of felt the same. But everyone is going to disagree with another's list so.....

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