Trending Astronomers in China this year
The 100 most-viewed astronomers this year on Wikipedia (China). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Liu Ji.
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Ranked
10,443
Total Views (this year)
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1
Liu Ji
Chinese philosopher and politician (1311β1375)
917
views
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2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
733
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
683
views
views
4
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642β1727)
558
views
views
5
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
297
views
views
6
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
294
views
views
7
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
294
views
views
8
Sima Qian
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
294
views
views
9
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
276
views
views
10
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564β1642)
236
views
views
11
Abe no Seimei
Japanese onmyΕji
224
views
views
12
Toghon TemΓΌr
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
219
views
views
13
Fang Lizhi
Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissident (1936β2012)
213
views
views
14
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
205
views
views
15
Shen Kuo
Chinese scientist and statesman (1031-1095)
195
views
views
16
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
179
views
views
17
Xu Guangqi
late-Ming-dynasty Chinese politician, Scholar, Lay Catholic leader and Servant of God (*1562 β β 1633)
163
views
views
18
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
153
views
views
19
Johann Adam Schall von Bell
German astronomer and Jesuit missionary active in China
145
views
views
20
Zhang Heng
Chinese scientist and statesman (78β139)
141
views
views
21
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503β1566)
127
views
views
22
Cai Yong
Chinese official and scholar (132-192)
122
views
views
23
Zu Chongzhi
Chinese mathematician-astronomer
121
views
views
24
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
115
views
views
25
Gu Yanwu
Chinese philologist and geographer (1613β1682)
115
views
views
26
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
103
views
views
27
Li Chunfeng
ancient Chinese mathematician, astronomer and historian
100
views
views
28
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
94
views
views
29
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
93
views
views
30
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
92
views
views
31
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548β1600)
92
views
views
32
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
90
views
views
33
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
87
views
views
34
ζΎη»΄θ
astronomer
82
views
views
35
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081β1124)
77
views
views
36
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
70
views
views
37
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
68
views
views
38
Feng Shi
68
views
views
39
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749β1827)
67
views
views
40
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493β1541)
59
views
views
41
Zhu Zaiyu, Prince of Zheng
Chinese mathematician, physicist and musician (1536β1611)
59
views
views
42
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
58
views
views
43
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
57
views
views
44
Ferdinand Verbiest
Flemish Jesuit missionary in Qing dynasty China (1623β1688)
56
views
views
45
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
56
views
views
46
Guo Shoujing
Chinese astronomer and mathematician (1231β1316)
54
views
views
47
Theodore von KΓ‘rmΓ‘n
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881β1963)
54
views
views
48
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736β1813)
53
views
views
49
Queen Seondeok of Silla
queen-regnant of Silla
52
views
views
50
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889β1953)
50
views
views
51
MuαΈ₯ammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
48
views
views
52
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
48
views
views
53
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
48
views
views
54
Shen Chun-shan
Taiwanese physicist (1932-2018)
46
views
views
55
Henri PoincarΓ©
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854β1912)
43
views
views
56
Liu Xiang
Chinese official, scholar and writer (77β6 BCE)
42
views
views
57
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629β1695)
41
views
views
58
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
41
views
views
59
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791β1871)
40
views
views
60
George Gamow
Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904β1968)
38
views
views
61
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
38
views
views
62
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
37
views
views
63
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
37
views
views
64
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546β1601
37
views
views
65
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
37
views
views
66
William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)
36
views
views
67
Liu Xin
Chinese astronomer, mathematician, historian, librarian and politician (c. 50 BCE-23CE)
36
views
views
68
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126β1198)
36
views
views
69
Chang YΕngsil
Korean mechanical engineer, scientist and inventor
35
views
views
70
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
34
views
views
71
Nan Rendong
Chinese astronomer (1945-2017)
34
views
views
72
Huang Daozhou
Chinese calligrapher (1585-1646)
34
views
views
73
Qiao Zhou
Shu Han official and scholar (died 270)
33
views
views
74
Su Song
Chinese polymath and statesman (1020β1101)
33
views
views
75
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824β1907)
32
views
views
76
Wang Chong
1st century Chinese meteorologist, astronomer, and philosopher
32
views
views
77
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890β1962)
32
views
views
78
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738β1822)
32
views
views
79
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
32
views
views
80
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
31
views
views
81
Wang Zhenyi
Chinese astronomer, mathematician and poet (18th century)
30
views
views
82
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
30
views
views
83
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
29
views
views
84
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
28
views
views
85
Yi Xing
8th-century Buddhist monk and astronomer
27
views
views
86
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
27
views
views
87
Urbain Le Verrier
French astronomer (1811-1877)
27
views
views
88
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
27
views
views
89
Clyde Tombaugh
American astronomer (1906β1997)
27
views
views
90
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
25
views
views
91
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792β1871)
25
views
views
92
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
25
views
views
93
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656β1742)
24
views
views
94
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician and engineer (1809β1882)
23
views
views
95
Li Shanlan
Chinese mathematician (1810-1882)
23
views
views
96
Karl Schwarzschild
German physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1873β1916)
23
views
views
97
William Kwong Yu Yeung
Canadian astronomer
23
views
views
98
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
23
views
views
99
Jean-Pierre Christin
French astronomer
22
views
views
100
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
22
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