Trending Physicists this month
The 100 most-viewed physicists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Sally Ride.
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1,698,313
Total Views (this month)
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1
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
133,912
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
90,490
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
62,616
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
54,599
views
views
5
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
54,142
views
views
6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
53,916
views
views
7
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
50,547
views
views
8
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
46,009
views
views
9
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
45,888
views
views
10
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
45,091
views
views
11
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
37,788
views
views
12
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
34,722
views
views
13
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
33,147
views
views
14
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
30,670
views
views
15
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
30,582
views
views
16
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
28,421
views
views
17
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
26,945
views
views
18
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
26,541
views
views
19
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
25,694
views
views
20
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
25,517
views
views
21
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
24,575
views
views
22
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
22,134
views
views
23
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
18,755
views
views
24
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
18,623
views
views
25
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
18,610
views
views
26
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
17,494
views
views
27
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
17,348
views
views
28
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
17,234
views
views
29
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
16,451
views
views
30
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
16,232
views
views
31
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
16,200
views
views
32
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
16,157
views
views
33
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
16,070
views
views
34
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
15,738
views
views
35
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
15,659
views
views
36
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
15,618
views
views
37
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
14,099
views
views
38
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
13,199
views
views
39
Steven Hawley
American astronaut
12,173
views
views
40
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
12,164
views
views
41
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
11,966
views
views
42
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
11,590
views
views
43
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
10,691
views
views
44
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
10,559
views
views
45
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
10,375
views
views
46
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
10,075
views
views
47
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
10,015
views
views
48
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
9,969
views
views
49
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
9,676
views
views
50
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
9,616
views
views
51
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
9,422
views
views
52
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930β2002)
9,135
views
views
53
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909β1966)
8,943
views
views
54
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
8,778
views
views
55
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
8,706
views
views
56
Benedetto Vigna
Italian physicist
8,521
views
views
57
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
8,463
views
views
58
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
8,217
views
views
59
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
7,993
views
views
60
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
7,927
views
views
61
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
7,820
views
views
62
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
7,593
views
views
63
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
7,523
views
views
64
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
7,311
views
views
65
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
7,178
views
views
66
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
7,128
views
views
67
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
6,990
views
views
68
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
6,880
views
views
69
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
6,683
views
views
70
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
6,561
views
views
71
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
6,482
views
views
72
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
6,479
views
views
73
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
6,279
views
views
74
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
6,255
views
views
75
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
6,209
views
views
76
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928β2025)
6,208
views
views
77
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
6,058
views
views
78
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882β1935)
6,049
views
views
79
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
6,016
views
views
80
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871β1937)
5,950
views
views
81
Harold E. Puthoff
American physicist
5,864
views
views
82
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
5,655
views
views
83
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
5,549
views
views
84
Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist (1926-2020)
5,473
views
views
85
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
5,378
views
views
86
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
5,350
views
views
87
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936β2021)
5,326
views
views
88
Fidel Γngel Castro DΓaz-Balart
first son of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro
5,310
views
views
89
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048β1131)
5,220
views
views
90
Richard D. Field
emeritus professor of physics
5,125
views
views
91
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
4,928
views
views
92
William of Ockham
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287β1347)
4,920
views
views
93
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
4,903
views
views
94
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
4,884
views
views
95
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
4,817
views
views
96
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928β2025)
4,799
views
views
97
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
4,758
views
views
98
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933β2002)
4,714
views
views
99
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
4,656
views
views
100
Jeremy Hansen
Canadian astronaut (born 1976)
4,625
views
views
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