Trending Physicists this week
The 100 most-viewed physicists this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Robert Oppenheimer.
100
Ranked
684,786
Total Views (this week)
Country
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๐ฏ๐ต Japan
๐ช๐ธ Spain
๐ง๐ท Brazil
๐ท๐บ Russia
๐จ๐ณ China
1
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904โ1967)
42,900
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879โ1955)
40,248
views
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856โ1943)
26,770
views
views
4
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
25,155
views
views
5
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706โ1790)
21,378
views
views
6
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867โ1934)
20,680
views
views
7
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
20,416
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642โ1727)
19,808
views
views
9
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
16,589
views
views
10
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
14,078
views
views
11
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918โ1988)
13,747
views
views
12
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908โ2003)
12,549
views
views
13
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
12,431
views
views
14
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847โ1931)
12,379
views
views
15
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912โ1977)
12,144
views
views
16
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
11,895
views
views
17
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901โ1976)
10,723
views
views
18
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
9,794
views
views
19
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
9,666
views
views
20
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564โ1642)
9,648
views
views
21
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
8,845
views
views
22
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
8,558
views
views
23
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
7,674
views
views
24
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847โ1922)
7,632
views
views
25
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917โ2008)
7,595
views
views
26
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749โ1832)
7,533
views
views
27
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
7,424
views
views
28
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
7,265
views
views
29
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
7,181
views
views
30
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
6,725
views
views
31
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
6,699
views
views
32
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
6,578
views
views
33
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885โ1962)
6,541
views
views
34
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903โ1957)
6,311
views
views
35
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
5,756
views
views
36
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
5,656
views
views
37
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
5,338
views
views
38
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
5,225
views
views
39
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
4,694
views
views
40
Kurt Gรถdel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906โ1978)
4,645
views
views
41
Mileva Mariฤ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875โ1948)
4,558
views
views
42
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
4,515
views
views
43
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791โ1867)
4,513
views
views
44
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
4,481
views
views
45
Erwin Schrรถdinger
Austrian physicist (1887โ1961)
4,432
views
views
46
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
4,292
views
views
47
Enrico Fermi
ItalianโAmerican physicist (1901โ1954)
4,172
views
views
48
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868โ1934)
4,155
views
views
49
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888โ1970)
4,088
views
views
50
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
3,963
views
views
51
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646โ1716)
3,954
views
views
52
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882โ1970)
3,938
views
views
53
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920โ1958)
3,921
views
views
54
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909โ1966)
3,887
views
views
55
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
3,885
views
views
56
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
3,790
views
views
57
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
3,780
views
views
58
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
3,734
views
views
59
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906โ1992)
3,670
views
views
60
Frank Oppenheimer
American particle physicist (1912โ1985)
3,596
views
views
61
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
3,517
views
views
62
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831โ1879)
3,450
views
views
63
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
3,430
views
views
64
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
3,214
views
views
65
Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901โ1958)
3,201
views
views
66
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
3,102
views
views
67
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
3,021
views
views
68
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858โ1947)
3,021
views
views
69
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
3,015
views
views
70
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
2,978
views
views
71
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933โ2002)
2,899
views
views
72
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
2,899
views
views
73
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902โ1984)
2,882
views
views
74
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871โ1937)
2,845
views
views
75
V. Balakrishnan
Indian theoretical physicist
2,766
views
views
76
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
2,766
views
views
77
Irรจne Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897โ1956)
2,763
views
views
78
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
2,691
views
views
79
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859โ1906)
2,682
views
views
80
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
2,663
views
views
81
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
2,566
views
views
82
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928โ2025)
2,566
views
views
83
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901โ1994)
2,558
views
views
84
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919โ1971)
2,549
views
views
85
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
2,530
views
views
86
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
2,458
views
views
87
Pavel Jungwirth
Czech chemist and academic (1966โ2026)
2,408
views
views
88
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862โ1943)
2,403
views
views
89
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834โ1907)
2,380
views
views
90
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923โ2020)
2,371
views
views
91
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
2,354
views
views
92
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844โ1906)
2,332
views
views
93
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
2,294
views
views
94
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
2,177
views
views
95
Leonard Hofstadter
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory
2,176
views
views
96
Jane Foster
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
2,159
views
views
97
James Watt
British engineer (1736โ1819)
2,159
views
views
98
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
2,117
views
views
99
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
2,116
views
views
100
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
2,111
views
views
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