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Trending Physicists in France this year

The 100 most-viewed physicists this year on Wikipedia (France). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Marie Curie.

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51,355
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1
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
πŸ“š 72 citations Person
4,041
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452βˆ’1519)
πŸ“š 55 citations Person
2,458
views
3
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
πŸ“š 92 citations Person
2,312
views
4
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
2,019
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
1,297
views
6
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
πŸ“š 52 citations Person
1,233
views
7
Jean-Pierre Petit
French astrophysicist, scientist and illustrator
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
1,185
views
8
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
πŸ“š 102 citations Person
1,159
views
9
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
1,146
views
10
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
Person
1,076
views
11
RenΓ© Descartes
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
1,025
views
12
Aristotle
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
1,013
views
13
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
πŸ“š 133 citations Person
901
views
14
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
893
views
15
Serge Zaka
agroclimatologist
Person
886
views
16
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904–1967)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
861
views
17
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
848
views
18
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
829
views
19
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
712
views
20
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
678
views
21
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
668
views
22
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
627
views
23
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
574
views
24
Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
569
views
25
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
547
views
26
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French inventor (1725–1804)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
539
views
27
AurΓ©lien Barrau
French astrophysicist
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
538
views
28
Avicenna
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
537
views
29
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
πŸ“š 41 citations Person
528
views
30
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
516
views
31
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
509
views
32
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
490
views
33
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
πŸ“š 75 citations Person
484
views
34
Henri PoincarΓ©
Henri PoincarΓ©
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
462
views
35
Hélène Langevin-Joliot
French physicist
πŸ“š 13 citations Person
447
views
36
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
445
views
37
Γ‰milie du ChΓ’telet
Γ‰milie du ChΓ’telet
Era chinΓ‘ physicist, and author (1706-1749)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
445
views
38
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
414
views
39
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
414
views
40
Michel Mayor
Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
πŸ“š 24 citations Person
404
views
41
Sophie Germain
Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
πŸ“š 20 citations Person
382
views
42
Francis Rocard
French astrophysicist
Person
354
views
43
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
354
views
44
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
342
views
45
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
πŸ“š 50 citations Person
341
views
46
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
336
views
47
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
330
views
48
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
328
views
49
FrΓ©dΓ©ric Joliot-Curie
FrΓ©dΓ©ric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
319
views
50
Cuthbert Calculus
fictional human
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
318
views
51
Jeremy Hansen
Jeremy Hansen
Canadian astronaut (born 1976)
Person
314
views
52
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
301
views
53
NicΓ©phore NiΓ©pce
NicΓ©phore NiΓ©pce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
πŸ“š 22 citations Person
298
views
54
David Elbaz
French astrophysicist
πŸ“š 11 citations Person
283
views
55
Thales
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
281
views
56
Cheikh Anta Diop
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
281
views
57
Mileva Marić
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
280
views
58
Γ‰tienne Klein
French Philosopher of Science, epistemologist
Person
280
views
59
Auguste Piccard
Swiss physicist (1884–1962)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
276
views
60
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
276
views
61
Gaston Bachelard
French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
274
views
62
Anne Lauvergeon
French businesswoman
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
268
views
63
Kurt GΓΆdel
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
268
views
64
Alain Aspect
French physicist
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
265
views
65
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
263
views
66
Taylor Wilson
American student, scientist
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
260
views
67
Louis Leprince-Ringuet
French physicist, telecommunications engineer, essayist and historian of science (1901–2000)
πŸ“š 20 citations Person
260
views
68
Marguerite Perey
French physicist (1909–1975)
πŸ“š 12 citations Person
256
views
69
Louis de Broglie
Louis de Broglie
Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892–1987)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
250
views
70
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
244
views
71
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
243
views
72
Lazare Carnot
Lazare Carnot
French political, engineering and mathematical figure (1753–1823)
πŸ“š 25 citations Person
237
views
73
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
234
views
74
James Watt
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
229
views
75
Hubert Reeves
Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science (1932–2023)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
227
views
76
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
223
views
77
Sylvie Retailleau
French physicist, university president
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
216
views
78
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
208
views
79
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
202
views
80
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
πŸ“š 76 citations Person
202
views
81
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
201
views
82
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
199
views
83
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
πŸ“š 81 citations Person
192
views
84
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
190
views
85
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
188
views
86
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
187
views
87
Poul la Cour
Danish scientist, inventor and educationer (1846–1908)
πŸ“š 11 citations Person
187
views
88
Denis Papin
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
185
views
89
FranΓ§ois Forget
researcher
Person
184
views
90
Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
176
views
91
Yves Langevin
French astrophysicist
Person
175
views
92
Nicolas Carnot
Nicolas Carnot
French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796–1832)
πŸ“š 20 citations Person
173
views
93
Michel Langevin
French physicist, resistant and communist activist
Person
168
views
94
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
πŸ“š 74 citations Person
167
views
95
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
164
views
96
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
164
views
97
CΓ©cile Renault
French astrophysicist (1970-2021)
Person
162
views
98
Sally Ride
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
161
views
99
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
152
views
100
Henri Becquerel
Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
148
views