Trending Astronomers in Germany this year
The 100 most-viewed astronomers this year on Wikipedia (Germany). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.
100
Ranked
22,636
Total Views (this year)
Country
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๐บ๐ธ USA
๐ฉ๐ช Germany
๐ซ๐ท France
๐ฏ๐ต Japan
๐ช๐ธ Spain
๐ง๐ท Brazil
๐ท๐บ Russia
๐จ๐ณ China
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
1,771
views
views
2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
1,311
views
views
3
Harald Lesch
German physicist
1,256
views
views
4
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
874
views
views
5
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564โ1642)
836
views
views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642โ1727)
822
views
views
7
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
775
views
views
8
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
766
views
views
9
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
752
views
views
10
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
692
views
views
11
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
604
views
views
12
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
537
views
views
13
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493โ1541)
528
views
views
14
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
504
views
views
15
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
475
views
views
16
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
419
views
views
17
Philipp Melanchthon
German reformer (1497-1560)
373
views
views
18
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
340
views
views
19
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548โ1600)
301
views
views
20
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546โ1601
294
views
views
21
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880โ1930)
289
views
views
22
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503โ1566)
289
views
views
23
Carl Friedrich von Weizsรคcker
German physicist (1912โ2007)
249
views
views
24
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
231
views
views
25
Reinhard Genzel
German astronomer
219
views
views
26
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
199
views
views
27
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
German scientist and satirist (1742-1799)
198
views
views
28
Ernst Abbe
German physicist (1840-1905)
198
views
views
29
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
198
views
views
30
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 โ 1464)
193
views
views
31
Heinz Haber
German physicist (1913โ1990)
193
views
views
32
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
188
views
views
33
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
185
views
views
34
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
170
views
views
35
Cecilia Scorza de Appl
researcher and astronomer
160
views
views
36
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
160
views
views
37
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126โ1198)
153
views
views
38
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
153
views
views
39
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
152
views
views
40
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer
144
views
views
41
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135โ1204)
137
views
views
42
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
135
views
views
43
Muแธฅammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
135
views
views
44
Tim Russ
American actor
134
views
views
45
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749โ1827)
124
views
views
46
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
119
views
views
47
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738โ1822)
116
views
views
48
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629โ1695)
113
views
views
49
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
113
views
views
50
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
110
views
views
51
Heino Falcke
German astronomer
107
views
views
52
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824โ1907)
101
views
views
53
Thomas Zurbuchen
Swiss-American astrophysicist
95
views
views
54
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791โ1871)
94
views
views
55
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha
Ottoman grand vizier and general (1832-1919)
94
views
views
56
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
93
views
views
57
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
93
views
views
58
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ1131)
91
views
views
59
Florian Freistetter
Austrian astronomer, blogger and writer
88
views
views
60
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
86
views
views
61
Friedrich Bessel
German astronomer and mathematician
82
views
views
62
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
81
views
views
63
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
81
views
views
64
Sophia Brahe
Danish horticulturalist
80
views
views
65
Henri Poincarรฉ
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854โ1912)
76
views
views
66
Alfred Krabbe
astronomer
73
views
views
67
Karl Schwarzschild
German physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1873โ1916)
72
views
views
68
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
72
views
views
69
Heinz Oberhummer
Austrian physicist (1941โ2015)
69
views
views
70
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
65
views
views
71
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
65
views
views
72
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486โ1535)
63
views
views
73
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736โ1813)
63
views
views
74
Josef M. Gaรner
German astrophysicist, non-fiction author and YouTuber
61
views
views
75
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
60
views
views
76
Josef Aschbacher
Austrian space researcher and manager, director general of ESA
60
views
views
77
August Ferdinand Mรถbius
German mathematician and astronomer (1790โ1868)
59
views
views
78
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
57
views
views
79
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
57
views
views
80
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889โ1953)
56
views
views
81
Caroline Herschel
German-British astronomer (1750-1848)
54
views
views
82
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310โc.230 BC)
53
views
views
83
Hanns Hรถrbiger
Austrian inventor and scientist (1860-1931)
53
views
views
84
Idris
prophet
52
views
views
85
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081โ1124)
52
views
views
86
Martin Behaim
German navigator and geographer to the King of Portugal (1459โ1507)
51
views
views
87
Suzanna Randall
German astrophysicist
51
views
views
88
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792โ1871)
51
views
views
89
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859โ1927)
50
views
views
90
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
49
views
views
91
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394โ1449)
48
views
views
92
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632โ1723)
46
views
views
93
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
46
views
views
94
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973โ1048)
46
views
views
95
Alexis von Hoensbroech
German manager
45
views
views
96
Johannes Hevelius
astronomer setting up the cartography of the Moon
42
views
views
97
Claude Nicollier
Swiss astronaut
42
views
views
98
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
42
views
views
99
Pytheas
ancient Greek explorer
41
views
views
100
Hermann of Reichenau
German 11th-century Benedictine monk
41
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