Wired Differently: Quizbot # 1

Quizbot is a weekly quiz initiated by yours truly in an attempt to reach far out in everyone's quest for Curiosity. Besides, Quizzing is one of my hobbies and thanks to SEQC, now one of my passions.

Quizbot is pure quizzing. No Leaderboard, No Scores. Every week, there will be a set of 5 questions, to be answered in the comments section. Look out every Sunday for a new set!

Set # 1

1. A leading researcher in areas of mathematical physics and the Theory of Everything, this theoretical physicist is perhaps, according to his peers, a successor to Albert Einstein. Identify.

2. Described as "A webcomic....... that is all", this webcomic has a member of the family Anatidae in its name. Name this webcomic (the image below is a strip from the comic), whose subjects range from technology to mathematics to physics, often giving faux-eloquent facts on these topics.

3. Co-director of Asia's largest film festival, this travel writer and historian pretty much lives in New Delhi, India. Identify him.

4. Identify this pop band, based in Sweden. In September 2010, they released an album named after a quantity explained as "a + b is to a as a is to b." Name.

5. A sitter (there will be one of these in every set). Give me the code name used for the Kill Osama Bin Laden operation. Clue below.

Post your answers in the comments section below. Answers to be revealed in the next set, of-course, along with the scores.