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Hmmm... I like it Michel.... its different and progressive! Perhaps a tournament could be organised as follows, Classical (Greek, Babylonian, Egyptian?) natural philosophers XI, Solvay Conference physicists XI, Industrial revolution scientist and inventors XI, Post war scientists (somewhat dominated by those you've mentioned). I can just see the crunch as Democritus goes for a 50:50 ball with James Watt, or Kaku trying to lob de Broglie in the Solvay goal. I love being a geek.

Feynmann would have to be my coach as he's surely the best communicator around. Hooke as talent scout: he's always quick to claim he saw it first.

Yeah, Hawking was a reasonable omition.

Nothing eludes you michel - they are all dead, but as DJBruce points out its just for a bit of fun. I'm actually writing this from the UK, so I accept the interest might not quite be there and any places I wrote football now become soccer. Apologies!

With the world cup stopping me from doing any real work I've taken it upon myself to create my Physicist football squad. It's been the best hour I've spent recently and I recommend it! Positions and places in the squad are not completely based on ability as a Physicist: Goal: Rutherford, Left Back: Archimedes, Right Back: Bohr, Centre Back: Einstein, Centre Back: Newton, Left Mid: Schroedinger, Right Mid: Faraday, Centre Mid: Galileo, Centre Mid: Maxwell, Striker: Heisenburg, Striker: Boltzmann. On the bench: Curie, Feynmann, Laplace, Dirac, Thompson, Kepler, Pauli. Thoughts? I'm happy with most of it other than the stike partners (hints of uncertainty from Heisenburg), and I accept that Kepler and Laplace might be considered Astronomers before Physicists. Again, I welcome your ideas! Ruben