Abstract

Physicists are like writers: the best of them stop producing high-quality work as they age. Why can’t physicists be more like the famous painters, who typically become, if anything, more productive and liberated from convention as they grow old? The trend is clear, if hardly explained: the greatest giants in physics have either died young or stopped meaningful work well before going to glory.

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