Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
ABSTRACT We discuss the notions of scientific revolutions and revolutionaries in the context of the Relativity Revolution and of the First, Second, and Third Quantum Revolutions. We conclude that at the core of the question of what qualifies as a revolution and revolutionary is an assessment of the gradients of knowledge accumulation over time, both at the collective and individual level. Furthermore, what seems to distinguish a true revolutionary from the rest is a convergence of rare qualities such as the courage to break away from existing frameworks, the technical skill to do so rigorously, and—perhaps most critically—the intuition and inspiration needed to unify disparate pieces of the puzzle into a self‐consistent picture.
Folman et al. (Mon,) studied this question.