Trending Physicists in Germany — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Angela Merkel. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
890,053
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
67,103
views
views
2
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
64,386
views
views
3
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
45,274
views
views
4
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
37,878
views
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
31,875
views
views
6
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
27,310
views
views
7
Reiner Haseloff
German politician
26,568
views
views
8
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
23,504
views
views
9
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
22,987
views
views
10
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
22,499
views
views
11
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
21,815
views
views
12
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
21,370
views
views
13
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
18,714
views
views
14
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
16,860
views
views
15
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
14,749
views
views
16
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
14,007
views
views
17
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
13,817
views
views
18
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
13,485
views
views
19
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
12,952
views
views
20
Manuel Hobiger
12,918
views
views
21
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
12,660
views
views
22
Harald Lesch
German physicist
10,910
views
views
23
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician (1826–1866)
10,802
views
views
24
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
10,180
views
views
25
Sibylle Anderl
German astrophysicist
8,930
views
views
26
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
8,603
views
views
27
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
8,134
views
views
28
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
7,874
views
views
29
Karsten Wildberger
German manager and politician (CDU), Federal Minister
7,697
views
views
30
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
7,544
views
views
31
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
7,329
views
views
32
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
7,191
views
views
33
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
7,127
views
views
34
Mojib Latif
German meteorologist
7,040
views
views
35
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
6,868
views
views
36
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
6,636
views
views
37
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
6,398
views
views
38
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
6,330
views
views
39
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
6,008
views
views
40
Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
6,001
views
views
41
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
5,945
views
views
42
Ranga Yogeshwar
Luxembourgish television presenter and author
5,915
views
views
43
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
5,865
views
views
44
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
5,555
views
views
45
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
5,519
views
views
46
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
5,395
views
views
47
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
5,053
views
views
48
Metin Tolan
Turkish-German physicist (born 1965)
4,980
views
views
49
Alexander Gerst
German ESA astronaut and geophysicist
4,873
views
views
50
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
4,826
views
views
51
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
4,364
views
views
52
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
4,348
views
views
53
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
4,336
views
views
54
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
4,284
views
views
55
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
4,256
views
views
56
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
3,769
views
views
57
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
German physicist (1912–2007)
3,744
views
views
58
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
3,707
views
views
59
Sabine Hossenfelder
German theoretical physicist
3,673
views
views
60
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
3,642
views
views
61
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
3,561
views
views
62
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
3,315
views
views
63
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
3,196
views
views
64
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
3,179
views
views
65
Gerd Ganteför
German experimental physicist
3,134
views
views
66
Manfred von Ardenne
German researcher and applied physicist (1907-1997)
3,022
views
views
67
Otto von Guericke
German scientist, inventor, and politician (1602-1686)
3,015
views
views
68
Roland Busch
German business executive and physicist
2,928
views
views
69
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
2,876
views
views
70
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
2,870
views
views
71
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
2,867
views
views
72
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
2,834
views
views
73
Robert Havemann
German chemist and dissident (1910–1982)
2,830
views
views
74
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
2,753
views
views
75
Jára Cimrman
Czech fictional character of a national giant
2,698
views
views
76
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959–2015)
2,686
views
views
77
Heinrich Hertz
German physicist (1857–1894)
2,638
views
views
78
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
2,593
views
views
79
Anton Zeilinger
Austrian quantum physicist (born 1945)
2,591
views
views
80
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
2,587
views
views
81
Laura Bassi
Italian physicist (1711-1778)
2,585
views
views
82
Hermann von Helmholtz
German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894)
2,564
views
views
83
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
2,517
views
views
84
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
2,513
views
views
85
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
2,509
views
views
86
Edzard Reuter
German businessman (1928–2024)
2,499
views
views
87
Axel Stoll
German geophysicist and conspiracy theorist
2,491
views
views
88
Lavinia Heisenberg
German physicist and professor
2,443
views
views
89
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
2,407
views
views
90
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
German scientist and satirist (1742-1799)
2,381
views
views
91
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
2,380
views
views
92
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
2,378
views
views
93
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
2,375
views
views
94
Joachim Bublath
German television presenter and author
2,345
views
views
95
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
2,222
views
views
96
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
2,220
views
views
97
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
2,179
views
views
98
Hermann Oberth
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)
2,175
views
views
99
Carl Zeiss
German optical physicist (1816–1888)
2,174
views
views
100
Vince Ebert
German author, news presenter and physicist
2,141
views
views