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Most physicists most of the time aren't Dirac, Pauli, Yang, Mills, Feynmann, Witten, etc.
No, but my impression is that the physics culture has been more influenced by the MWA style than mathematical culture has. In particular, my impression is that most physicists understand "the big picture" (which has been figured out by using MWAs) whereas in my experience, most mathematicians are pretty focused on individual research problems.