Throughout time, physicists have been repping some very serious facial hair with the same sort of aplomb as Santa Claus or, I don't know, the dudes from seminal sludge crust band, The Body. I spent too long combing the internet for the 10 greatest of these nearly-Newton-defying-beards, and I will now judge them based on the entirely arbitrary 10-point Motherbeard scale. Bask in their glory.

Democritus

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Archimides

James Clerk Maxwell

Ludwig Boltzmann

Joseph Swan

John Tyndall

William Crookes

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Wilhelm Röntgen

Gersh Budker

