Quote Originally Posted by sparq View Post
What do you guys see as his biggest contribution to science? (Let's ignore his storytelling capabilities for the moment)

I think that his work is being heavily discounted in this thread.
The singularities and in particular the no-hair theorem. He did loose that bet with Kip and Preskill though

These are significant contributions, but he is no Feynman or Einstein, or Fermi, Dirac, Heisenberg etc.

Carl Sagan for example was a good scientists but I think his contributions to popularizing science are a lot bigger than those qualifying as new science.

Brian Greene is also a celebrity, and a very good scientist, but not the same league as the top guys.