Trending Physicists this month
The 100 most-viewed physicists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Robert Oppenheimer.
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1,538,484
Total Views (this month)
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1
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904β1967)
103,864
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
87,114
views
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
58,809
views
views
4
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
51,230
views
views
5
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
50,697
views
views
6
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
47,666
views
views
7
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
43,818
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642β1727)
41,050
views
views
9
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
34,871
views
views
10
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
33,532
views
views
11
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
28,815
views
views
12
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
28,682
views
views
13
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
27,838
views
views
14
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
26,724
views
views
15
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
25,134
views
views
16
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
23,792
views
views
17
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
22,552
views
views
18
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
21,862
views
views
19
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
21,640
views
views
20
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
20,531
views
views
21
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
20,475
views
views
22
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564β1642)
20,156
views
views
23
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
19,411
views
views
24
Kurt GΓΆdel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906β1978)
18,945
views
views
25
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
18,493
views
views
26
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
17,151
views
views
27
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
16,772
views
views
28
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
16,004
views
views
29
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
15,989
views
views
30
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
15,841
views
views
31
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
15,482
views
views
32
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
14,880
views
views
33
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
14,589
views
views
34
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
14,239
views
views
35
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
13,786
views
views
36
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
13,645
views
views
37
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
12,709
views
views
38
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
12,386
views
views
39
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
11,737
views
views
40
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
11,571
views
views
41
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
11,123
views
views
42
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
10,744
views
views
43
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
10,643
views
views
44
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
10,449
views
views
45
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
10,323
views
views
46
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
10,260
views
views
47
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
9,839
views
views
48
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
9,374
views
views
49
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
9,195
views
views
50
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
9,160
views
views
51
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
9,113
views
views
52
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
9,071
views
views
53
Frank Oppenheimer
American particle physicist (1912β1985)
9,059
views
views
54
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
8,992
views
views
55
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909β1966)
8,654
views
views
56
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882β1970)
8,629
views
views
57
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
7,957
views
views
58
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
7,928
views
views
59
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
7,898
views
views
60
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
7,834
views
views
61
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
7,824
views
views
62
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
7,802
views
views
63
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
7,787
views
views
64
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
7,516
views
views
65
Pavel Jungwirth
Czech chemist and academic (1966β2026)
7,457
views
views
66
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
7,424
views
views
67
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
7,329
views
views
68
Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901β1958)
7,264
views
views
69
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
6,810
views
views
70
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
6,602
views
views
71
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933β2002)
6,538
views
views
72
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
6,419
views
views
73
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
6,404
views
views
74
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
6,348
views
views
75
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
6,315
views
views
76
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
6,217
views
views
77
V. Balakrishnan
Indian theoretical physicist
6,183
views
views
78
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
6,160
views
views
79
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928β2025)
6,113
views
views
80
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919β1971)
5,912
views
views
81
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871β1937)
5,762
views
views
82
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
5,688
views
views
83
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
5,634
views
views
84
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
5,597
views
views
85
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
5,560
views
views
86
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
5,300
views
views
87
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
5,288
views
views
88
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
5,233
views
views
89
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
5,078
views
views
90
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
5,074
views
views
91
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
5,001
views
views
92
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss astronomer who posited dark matter (1898β1974)
4,849
views
views
93
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
4,824
views
views
94
Leonard Hofstadter
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory
4,812
views
views
95
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
4,788
views
views
96
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
4,603
views
views
97
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923β2020)
4,594
views
views
98
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
4,571
views
views
99
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858β1937)
4,566
views
views
100
David L. Hill
American physicist (1919β2008)
4,511
views
views
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