Top Ten Physicists in History

Based on the clue, can you name the top ten physticists in history according to a poll of scientists conducted by the American Physical Society (1999)?

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Birth Year & Location	Hint	Physicist
1879, Germany	Developed the theory of relativity	Albert Einstein
1643, England	His Principia (1687) laid the foundations of classical mechanics	Isaac Newton
1831, Scotland	Formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation	James Clerk Maxwell
1885, Denmark	Made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory	Niels Bohr
1901, Germany	Pioneer of quantum mechanics; well-known for his uncertainty principle	Werner Heisenberg
1564, Italy	Central figure in the transition from natural philosophy to modern science	Galileo Galilei
1918, United States	Made significant contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics	Richard Feynman
1902, England	Made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics	Paul Dirac
1887, Austria	Developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, which formed the basis of wave mechanics	Erwin Schrödinger
1871, New Zealand	Known as the father of nuclear physics	Ernest Rutherford

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