>>11498911how would i know, nobody even knows those guys' IQs (except iirc Feynman took an IQ test and got a lowish score, probably on purpose)
i've heard Sabrina talk, and my take on her is that she is very much a normal modern-day physicist. even in high-energy theory (the descendant field that came from what Einstein and Feynman worked on) there is a tendency to not philosophize like Einstein did, and not to have such a cult of personality like both Einstein and Feynman did. she is very down-to-earth and tries to keep it to business. so her personality is quite different from those guys. (Von Neumann i think was more of a mathematician and had more of the mathematician personality so i think he is out of context)
i mean, Einstein would ramble on about politics and the philosophy of Mach and ideas about an impersonal god. Feynman would ramble on about how the field of psychology is nonscientific and how you should go to hippie meetings at Esalen to explore your mind, bro, and also "i don't give a fuck, i like strippers!"
physics has moved away from those types of personalities. physicists are more disciplined now. and i think sabrina has embodied that very well. i think a large part of her success is that she has very little to say that is controversial. her only real political stances she makes is that "go women in stem!" but she moderates it with "no, i don't think physics is inherently sexist" which i think fits the typical academic politics but defending the field from accusations of sexism just makes her more endearing to the male physics establishment that struggles with these same feminist issues
