Who in the world has super taste, a feel for and way of picking subjects that, decades in the future, will seem prescient, as though they had a line on the future?
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Thanks, but just to clarify I mean people who helped found multiple fields, not whose work ended up important in multiple fields:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1154855892375916544 …
Clarifying again: I mean helped found, or helped enable the people who founded...
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is Sidney Coleman suitable? his field theory course was phenomenal and he also had a lot of successful graduate students(Affleck, Politzer, Griffiths, Zee...)
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he did not help found multiple fields but he helped to improve one field(QFT)by orders of magnitude I think
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