There is at least one person alive today in my own field of theoretical particle physics who almost everyone recognizes as a genius. (firstthings.com)
David Kaplan is a professor of theoretical particle physics at Johns Hopkins University and studies supersymmetry, dark matter, and properties of the Higgs boson. (whywaldorfeducationworks.org)
Education: Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from Harvard University; B.A. in physics from Harvard University (businessinsider.com)