How did a famous physicist study physics when young

Not sure if using famous physicists as role-models would be a good idea for "normal" people, as some of them were quite bad in school or were working with physics some time ago when the world was a different place. At least physics labs were :-) Quite a few of early discoveries in natural sciences have been done by people who worked with their own money in a shed or build up their own labs. Modern physicists normally work in groups or for bigger companies, and don't resemble the crazy scientist very much. But if you want to get better, you should of course do your homework etc. Also your math homework, and a bit of chemistry. Programming can come in handy too. And read science magazines, see science programs on TV etc to get some inspiration and find out what kind of physics you want to do.

My dad study microbiology and I can relate to this. Just like other subjects in Science,If you want to be better, you have to study physics while you are young but if you are curious how famous physics became successful, it's because they are NATURALLY CURIOUS.They love what they are doing.They don't just focus in class and do their homeworks, they use their free time to study physics because they love what they are doing,they read books to learn more.