The Gerard t'Hooft Theoretical Physicist Guide

There's a guide on the internet for how to become a good theoretical physicist without going to university. It's written by a rather famous physicist which, to me, says it's a pretty valid source. The author is Gerard 't Hooft, who won the 1999 Nobel prize in physics for his work as a theoretical physicist. It outlines some of the main subjects that will lead you to being a good theoretical physicist, along with some resources. Unfortunately a fair few of the links are (were) dead, but it really doesn't affect the good content.

How to Become a GOOD Theoretical Physicist

An Agenda

The good content is primarily the "course agenda":

• Primary Mathematics 
• Classical Mechanics 
• Optics 
• Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics 
• Electronics 
• Electromagnetism 
• Computational Physics 
• Quantum Mechanics 
• Atoms and Molecules 
• Solid State Physics 
• Nuclear Physics 
• Plasma physics 
• Advanced Mathematics 
• Special Relativity 
• Advanced Quantum Mechanics 
• Phenomenology 
• General Relativity 
• Quantum Field Theory 
• Superstring Theory

That Bit at the End...

This is essentially a physics tour de force, but fortunately, this is ideal. To not take advice from a physics Nobel prize winner, surely must be a really bad idea. But it was the 1965 winner, Richard Feynman, who said that the Nobel prize was the scientists' equivalent of epaulets and uniform. 

An UPDATE

Today, a year and a half after this was posted, I checked back on this website only to find it had been updated! So sometime between 2012 and 2014, t'Hooft has made the website really nice. In fact... I'm a little bit jealous... By the way, the link to the site is under the image :D.