Summary
Without a doubt, the most widely-recognised contemporary physicist is Albert Einstein, father of the Theory of Relativity and modern cosmology. With the appearance of quantum physics and cosmology, the 20th century became a mine of new ideas, the heritage of Lorentz, Poincaré, Friedmann, Lemaître, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger and others. However, one hundred years later, only Einstein has become a true legend.