ITT list the five greatest high-energy theoretical physicists alive (yes they must be LIVING) and why you think they make it

i’ll start
1) Stephen Weinberg
>he created the electroweak theory incorporating the higgs symmetry breaking mechanism, that alone is crazy but he had other great accomplishments
2) Gerard ‘t Hooft
>renormalized Yang-Mills / the standard model and brought field theory back from the dead. also did beast field theory stuff like monopoles. also was the first to really express the holographic principle
3) Lenny Susskind
>independently discovered the physical interpretation of Veneziano’s model and was thus one of the co-founders of string theory, made the holographic principle’s stringy interpretation clear, resolved the black hole information paradox, and helped to create the first nonperturbative formulation of string/M theory (BFSS matrix model)
4) Ed Witten
>just a beast at math, unified string theories and postulated M-theory, brought supergravity into the string theory realm, makes everyone look like a brainlet mentally and phenotypically
5) Cumrun Vafa
>helped andy strominger derive black hole entropy from string theory, put the reigns on modern string theory with his swampland program, made F-theory which is so advanced nobody can even explain why it is a generalization of M-theory, BTFO’d KKLT

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