Influential physicists

If you ask a bunch of people on who is the most influential physicist of, let's say, since the beginning of 1900, you would get the usual answers: Einstein, Feynman, Bohr, Heisenberg, Dirac, etc... all the big names. However, consider this: there is only ONE person who has won the Nobel Prize for Physics twice; this person is a co-inventor of the most important device that is now the foundation of our modern society that we use everyday; and this person is not on that list above.

Although I agree Bardeen is a great and influential physicist, I don't like the number of Nobel Prizes to speak. It is reasonable to state that, many other physicists may deserve even more than two Nobel Prizes. But that does not count much. Surely, it is great contributions to humans. Nonetheless, I think, it is rare to see physicists who reach the height of Einstein, who has refreshed not only our daily life, but also how we perceive the world. Not only technically, but also spiritually.

But anyway, it is inappropriate to make such useless comparisons, because every one has his own taste and judgments. My hero is Einstein, for sure.