Seems like there are two types of physicist these days, your regular run of the mill physicists who keeps there head down and doesn't rock the boat by suggesting anything out the ordinary and your contrarian physicists. 

Freeman Dyson's name was returned as a contrarian physicist, I'd read one of his books years ago, so I knew who he was. I suspect Einstein may have been a contrarian physicist, he was also a German, like Sabine the contrarian physicist.