Top 3 atheists #physicists (Quotes and sources below):
1) Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904 – 1967)
American Theoretical Physicist - "father of the atomic bomb"
Oppenheimer acquired a deeper knowledge of the Bhagavad Gita in 1933 when, as a young professor of physics, he studied Sanskrit with Professor Arthur W Ryder (1877-1938) at Berkeley.
He said:
"Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries."
Oppenheimer and the Gita:
“the most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.” (source: The Story of J Robert Oppenheimer - By Denise Royal St. Martin's Press New York 1969 p. 54).
★♥★ Physicist: J. Robert Oppenheimer - "NOW, I AM BECOME DEATH.." - www.SherawaliMaa.com
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2)
Schrödinger stayed in Dublin until retiring in 1955. He had a lifelong interest in the Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism, which influenced his speculations at the close of What Is Life? about the possibility that individual consciousness is only a manifestation of a unitary consciousness pervading the universe.
Profession: Physicist, Mathematician, Scientist
Works written: What Is Life?, Mind and Matter
3) Danish physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr (1885-1962), was fascinated with Vedas.
His remark “I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr
Source:
The Upanishads: A New Translation
by Vernon Katz and Thomas Egenes