Trending Physicists in France this week
The 100 most-viewed physicists this week on Wikipedia (France). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Marie Curie.
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1
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
145
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2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
89
views
views
3
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
67
views
views
4
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
43
views
views
5
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
35
views
views
6
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
35
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
35
views
views
8
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
34
views
views
9
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
31
views
views
10
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
30
views
views
11
Auguste Piccard
Swiss physicist (1884β1962)
25
views
views
12
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
25
views
views
13
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
22
views
views
14
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
22
views
views
15
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
21
views
views
16
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
21
views
views
17
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
20
views
views
18
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
20
views
views
19
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
20
views
views
20
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
20
views
views
21
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
19
views
views
22
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
19
views
views
23
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
19
views
views
24
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
19
views
views
25
Jean-Pierre Petit
French astrophysicist, scientist and illustrator
18
views
views
26
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
18
views
views
27
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
18
views
views
28
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
17
views
views
29
Alain Aspect
French physicist
16
views
views
30
Γmilie du ChΓ’telet
Era chinΓ‘ physicist, and author (1706-1749)
16
views
views
31
Hélène Langevin-Joliot
French physicist
16
views
views
32
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
14
views
views
33
Henri PoincarΓ©
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854β1912)
14
views
views
34
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
14
views
views
35
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
14
views
views
36
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French inventor (1725β1804)
14
views
views
37
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647β1713)
12
views
views
38
FrΓ©dΓ©ric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
12
views
views
39
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
12
views
views
40
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
12
views
views
41
NicΓ©phore NiΓ©pce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
11
views
views
42
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
11
views
views
43
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824β1907)
11
views
views
44
Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
11
views
views
45
Fidel Γngel Castro DΓaz-Balart
first son of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro
11
views
views
46
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
11
views
views
47
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
11
views
views
48
Louis de Broglie
Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892β1987)
11
views
views
49
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
10
views
views
50
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
10
views
views
51
Emmett Brown
fictional character from the American sci-fi film trilogy Back to the Future
10
views
views
52
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
10
views
views
53
Lazare Carnot
French political, engineering and mathematical figure (1753β1823)
10
views
views
54
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
10
views
views
55
Cuthbert Calculus
fictional human
10
views
views
56
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
10
views
views
57
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
9
views
views
58
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
9
views
views
59
Grigori Grabovoi
Russian pseudo-scientist and sect leader
9
views
views
60
Anne Lauvergeon
French businesswoman
8
views
views
61
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
8
views
views
62
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
8
views
views
63
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
8
views
views
64
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
8
views
views
65
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
8
views
views
66
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
8
views
views
67
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
8
views
views
68
Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852β1908)
7
views
views
69
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
7
views
views
70
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
7
views
views
71
AurΓ©lien Barrau
French astrophysicist
7
views
views
72
William of Ockham
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287β1347)
7
views
views
73
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
7
views
views
74
Nicolas Carnot
French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796β1832)
7
views
views
75
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
7
views
views
76
Marin Mersenne
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (1588-1648)
6
views
views
77
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
6
views
views
78
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048β1131)
6
views
views
79
Serge Zaka
agroclimatologist
6
views
views
80
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882β1935)
6
views
views
81
Gustave Le Bon
French psychologist (1841-1931)
6
views
views
82
Taylor Wilson
American student, scientist
6
views
views
83
Yves Langevin
French astrophysicist
6
views
views
84
Michel Eugène Chevreul
French chemist (1786-1889)
6
views
views
85
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928β2025)
6
views
views
86
Christophe Galfard
French physicist and writer
6
views
views
87
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923β1986)
6
views
views
88
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician (1826β1866)
6
views
views
89
Samantha Carter
fictional character in the Stargate universe
6
views
views
90
Sylvie Retailleau
French physicist, university president
6
views
views
91
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician and physicist (1768 β 1830)
6
views
views
92
Roland Lehoucq
French astrophysicist
6
views
views
93
Leonard Hofstadter
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory
6
views
views
94
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
6
views
views
95
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
6
views
views
96
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
5
views
views
97
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
5
views
views
98
Metin Arditi
Turkish writer (born 1945)
5
views
views
99
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
5
views
views
100
Hero of Alexandria
ancient Greek mathematician and engineer
5
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