Who's a better scientist, Stephen Hawking or Albert Einstein?

Einstein contributed immensely to physics. His main contributions are general relativity, special relativity and explanation of Brownian motion and photoelectric effect. His theories are some of the most beautiful theories in physics. read more

I personally believe that Albert Einstein is a better scientist as he faced a lot of problems during his study on the theory of relativity and also during photoelectric effect to some extent even Stephen Hawking had face physical problems but Einstein fled his home country once to save his life which is really a heart breaking situation for a person and cannot be compared to any physical barrier or physical challenges. read more

Both really intelligent but most of hawking work is based off Einsteins theories. therefor Einstein's gifts inevitably resulted in his dwelling much in intellectual. read more