Editing Albert Einstein (section)

=== Scientific ===
In 1999, a survey of the top 100 physicists voted for Einstein as the "greatest physicist ever", while a parallel survey of rank-and-file physicists gave the top spot to [[Isaac Newton]], with Einstein second.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 November 1999 |title=Einstein the Greatest |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/541840.stm |access-date=19 November 2024 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1999-11-29 |title=Newton tops PhysicsWeb poll |url=https://physicsworld.com/a/newton-tops-physicsweb-poll/ |access-date=2024-12-19 |work=Physics World}}</ref>

Physicist [[Lev Landau]] ranked physicists from 0 to 5 on a [[Lev Landau#Landau's ranking of physicists|logarithmic scale]] of productivity and genius, with Newton and Einstein belonging in a "super league", with Newton receiving the highest ranking of 0, followed by Einstein with 0.5, while fathers of quantum mechanics such as [[Werner Heisenberg]] and [[Paul Dirac]] were ranked 1, with Landau himself a 2.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Goldberg |first=Elkhonon |author-link=Elkhonon Goldberg |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rr9EDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA166 |title=Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation |date=2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-046649-7 |location=New York, NY |pages=166 |language=en}}</ref>

Physicist [[Eugene Wigner]] noted that while [[John von Neumann]] had the quickest and acute mind he ever knew, the understanding of Einstein was deeper than von Neumann's, stating that:<ref>{{Cite book |last=Szanton |first=Andrew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Hj1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA170 |title=The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner |date=1992 |publisher=Springer US |isbn=978-0-306-44326-8 |location=Boston, MA |pages=58, 170 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-4899-6313-0}}</ref>{{blockquote|But Einstein's understanding was deeper than even Jancsi von Neumann's. His mind was both more penetrating and more original than von Neumann's. And that is a very remarkable statement. Einstein took an extraordinary pleasure in invention. Two of his greatest inventions are the Special and General Theories of Relativity; and for all of Jancsi's brilliance, he never produced anything so original. No modern physicist has.}} The [[International Union of Pure and Applied Physics]] declared 2005 the "[[World Year of Physics 2005|World Year of Physics]]", also known as "Einstein Year", in recognition of Einstein's "[[Annus mirabilis#1905 – Albert Einstein|miracle year]]" in 1905.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Here Comes the World Year of Physics |url=https://www.aps.org/archives/publications/apsnews/200310/wyp.cfm |website=aps.org}}</ref> It was also declared the "International Year of Physics" by the [[United Nations]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Year of Physics, 2005 |url=https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/523158?ln=en&v=pdf |date=2004-01-16 |website=United Nations Digital Library}}</ref>