When I was a student I asked my professors about their favourite theorem (or law) in physics. Most named Noether's theorem.
It is one of the most influential contributions to physics in the 20th century (among a very tough competition). A short 🧵 1/10 pic.twitter.com/dUywsd99Hf
Leslie Lamport received the Turing Award for "imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems" pic.twitter.com/f2KwfUGwR9