galileo, newton, and eilsein deserve this special recognition because they not only bulit on and made adavance in the knowledge of those who come beofre them Stanley is sadly overlooked in the 1957he discovered the double dispertion relation and essentially recorded s matrix theory which was proposed by heisenberg in buy lay dormant for nearly 20 years this theory became string theory after many twist and turns he also made pioneering contribution to field thoery​