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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Ranked
51,355
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
4,041
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
2,458
views
views
3
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
2,312
views
views
4
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
2,019
views
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
1,297
views
views
6
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
1,233
views
views
7
Jean-Pierre Petit
French astrophysicist, scientist and illustrator
1,185
views
views
8
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
1,159
views
views
9
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
1,146
views
views
10
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
1,076
views
views
11
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
1,025
views
views
12
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
1,013
views
views
13
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
901
views
views
14
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
893
views
views
15
Serge Zaka
agroclimatologist
886
views
views
16
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
861
views
views
17
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
848
views
views
18
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
829
views
views
19
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
712
views
views
20
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
678
views
views
21
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
668
views
views
22
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
627
views
views
23
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
574
views
views
24
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
569
views
views
25
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
547
views
views
26
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French inventor (1725β1804)
539
views
views
27
AurΓ©lien Barrau
French astrophysicist
538
views
views
28
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
537
views
views
29
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
528
views
views
30
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
516
views
views
31
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
509
views
views
32
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
490
views
views
33
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
484
views
views
34
Henri PoincarΓ©
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854β1912)
462
views
views
35
Hélène Langevin-Joliot
French physicist
447
views
views
36
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
445
views
views
37
Γmilie du ChΓ’telet
Era chinΓ‘ physicist, and author (1706-1749)
445
views
views
38
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
414
views
views
39
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
414
views
views
40
Michel Mayor
Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
404
views
views
41
Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
382
views
views
42
Francis Rocard
French astrophysicist
354
views
views
43
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
354
views
views
44
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
342
views
views
45
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
341
views
views
46
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
336
views
views
47
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
330
views
views
48
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
328
views
views
49
FrΓ©dΓ©ric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
319
views
views
50
Cuthbert Calculus
fictional human
318
views
views
51
Jeremy Hansen
Canadian astronaut (born 1976)
314
views
views
52
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
301
views
views
53
NicΓ©phore NiΓ©pce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
298
views
views
54
David Elbaz
French astrophysicist
283
views
views
55
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
281
views
views
56
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923β1986)
281
views
views
57
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
280
views
views
58
Γtienne Klein
French Philosopher of Science, epistemologist
280
views
views
59
Auguste Piccard
Swiss physicist (1884β1962)
276
views
views
60
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
276
views
views
61
Gaston Bachelard
French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)
274
views
views
62
Anne Lauvergeon
French businesswoman
268
views
views
63
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
268
views
views
64
Alain Aspect
French physicist
265
views
views
65
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
263
views
views
66
Taylor Wilson
American student, scientist
260
views
views
67
Louis Leprince-Ringuet
French physicist, telecommunications engineer, essayist and historian of science (1901β2000)
260
views
views
68
Marguerite Perey
French physicist (1909β1975)
256
views
views
69
Louis de Broglie
Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892β1987)
250
views
views
70
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
244
views
views
71
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749β1827)
243
views
views
72
Lazare Carnot
French political, engineering and mathematical figure (1753β1823)
237
views
views
73
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
234
views
views
74
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
229
views
views
75
Hubert Reeves
Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science (1932β2023)
227
views
views
76
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
223
views
views
77
Sylvie Retailleau
French physicist, university president
216
views
views
78
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
208
views
views
79
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
202
views
views
80
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
202
views
views
81
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775β1836)
201
views
views
82
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
199
views
views
83
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
192
views
views
84
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048β1131)
190
views
views
85
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
188
views
views
86
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician and physicist (1768 β 1830)
187
views
views
87
Poul la Cour
Danish scientist, inventor and educationer (1846β1908)
187
views
views
88
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647β1713)
185
views
views
89
François Forget
researcher
184
views
views
90
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
176
views
views
91
Yves Langevin
French astrophysicist
175
views
views
92
Nicolas Carnot
French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796β1832)
173
views
views
93
Michel Langevin
French physicist, resistant and communist activist
168
views
views
94
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
167
views
views
95
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
164
views
views
96
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
164
views
views
97
CΓ©cile Renault
French astrophysicist (1970-2021)
162
views
views
98
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
161
views
views
99
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
152
views
views
100
Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852β1908)
148
views
views
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