Trending Physicists in France this month
The 100 most-viewed physicists this month on Wikipedia (France). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Wernher von Braun.
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Ranked
18,929
Total Views (this month)
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1
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912โ1977)
1,728
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2
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867โ1934)
978
views
views
3
Jean-Pierre Petit
French astrophysicist, scientist and illustrator
881
views
views
4
Serge Zaka
agroclimatologist
827
views
views
5
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879โ1955)
795
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
703
views
views
7
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856โ1943)
526
views
views
8
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
475
views
views
9
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French inventor (1725โ1804)
435
views
views
10
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904โ1967)
406
views
views
11
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
345
views
views
12
Francis Rocard
French astrophysicist
327
views
views
13
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
318
views
views
14
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
302
views
views
15
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
285
views
views
16
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
284
views
views
17
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
279
views
views
18
Aurรฉlien Barrau
French astrophysicist
279
views
views
19
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
272
views
views
20
Jeremy Hansen
Canadian astronaut (born 1976)
267
views
views
21
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
260
views
views
22
Erwin Schrรถdinger
Austrian physicist (1887โ1961)
257
views
views
23
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706โ1790)
255
views
views
24
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
243
views
views
25
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
242
views
views
26
Marguerite Perey
French physicist (1909โ1975)
231
views
views
27
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859โ1906)
186
views
views
28
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
186
views
views
29
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847โ1931)
177
views
views
30
Irรจne Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897โ1956)
171
views
views
31
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
171
views
views
32
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749โ1832)
171
views
views
33
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918โ1988)
167
views
views
34
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
166
views
views
35
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
152
views
views
36
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901โ1976)
150
views
views
37
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
150
views
views
38
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
150
views
views
39
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
148
views
views
40
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
141
views
views
41
Henri Poincarรฉ
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854โ1912)
131
views
views
42
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
114
views
views
43
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646โ1716)
107
views
views
44
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923โ1986)
105
views
views
45
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
105
views
views
46
Mileva Mariฤ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875โ1948)
104
views
views
47
Gaston Bachelard
French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)
103
views
views
48
รtienne Klein
French Philosopher of Science, epistemologist
102
views
views
49
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847โ1922)
96
views
views
50
Alain Aspect
French physicist
92
views
views
51
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
90
views
views
52
Nicรฉphore Niรฉpce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
90
views
views
53
Sylvie Retailleau
French physicist, university president
89
views
views
54
Cรฉcile Renault
French astrophysicist (1970-2021)
89
views
views
55
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920โ1958)
88
views
views
56
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
85
views
views
57
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834โ1907)
83
views
views
58
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
83
views
views
59
Lazare Carnot
French political, engineering and mathematical figure (1753โ1823)
80
views
views
60
Anne Lauvergeon
French businesswoman
79
views
views
61
รmilie du Chรขtelet
Era chinรก physicist, and author (1706-1749)
79
views
views
62
Frรฉdรฉric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
79
views
views
63
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
79
views
views
64
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
78
views
views
65
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
77
views
views
66
Andrรฉ-Marie Ampรจre
French physicist and mathematician (1775โ1836)
77
views
views
67
Hubert Reeves
Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science (1932โ2023)
74
views
views
68
Walter Cunningham
American astronaut (1932โ2023)
74
views
views
69
Ghaleb Bencheikh Lehocine
French islamicist
74
views
views
70
Louis de Broglie
Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892โ1987)
71
views
views
71
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903โ1957)
71
views
views
72
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749โ1827)
71
views
views
73
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647โ1713)
70
views
views
74
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858โ1947)
69
views
views
75
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917โ2008)
68
views
views
76
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902โ1984)
68
views
views
77
Michael P. Anderson
astronaut, scientist (1959-2003)
66
views
views
78
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
65
views
views
79
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
63
views
views
80
Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
62
views
views
81
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ1131)
61
views
views
82
Franรงois Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
59
views
views
83
Nicolas Carnot
French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796โ1832)
59
views
views
84
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791โ1867)
58
views
views
85
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
57
views
views
86
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
57
views
views
87
Louis Leprince-Ringuet
French physicist, telecommunications engineer, essayist and historian of science (1901โ2000)
56
views
views
88
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
56
views
views
89
William Shockley
American physicist and inventor (1910โ1989)
56
views
views
90
Thibault Damour
French theoretical physicist (born 1951)
55
views
views
91
James Watt
British engineer (1736โ1819)
55
views
views
92
Hรฉlรจne Langevin-Joliot
French physicist
54
views
views
93
Ronald McNair
American physicist, astronaut (1950-1986)
54
views
views
94
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831โ1879)
53
views
views
95
Enrico Fermi
ItalianโAmerican physicist (1901โ1954)
51
views
views
96
Christophe Galfard
French physicist and writer
51
views
views
97
Bernard Palissy
French potter and engineer
51
views
views
98
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian scientist and priest (1894-1966)
51
views
views
99
Auguste Piccard
Swiss physicist (1884โ1962)
50
views
views
100
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882โ1935)
49
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views
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