Trending Physicists this week
The 100 most-viewed physicists this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein.
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765,716
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1
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
41,501
views
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2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
31,949
views
views
3
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
27,784
views
views
4
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
26,303
views
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
24,678
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
23,042
views
views
7
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
22,078
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
20,889
views
views
9
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
19,486
views
views
10
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
19,380
views
views
11
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
18,642
views
views
12
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
17,362
views
views
13
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
16,350
views
views
14
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
15,495
views
views
15
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
14,748
views
views
16
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
13,897
views
views
17
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
13,113
views
views
18
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
12,995
views
views
19
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
12,367
views
views
20
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
12,199
views
views
21
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
10,161
views
views
22
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
9,923
views
views
23
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
9,726
views
views
24
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
9,331
views
views
25
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
9,270
views
views
26
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
9,202
views
views
27
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
8,952
views
views
28
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
8,768
views
views
29
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
8,689
views
views
30
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
8,100
views
views
31
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
7,892
views
views
32
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
7,473
views
views
33
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
7,468
views
views
34
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930β2002)
7,334
views
views
35
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
7,324
views
views
36
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
7,317
views
views
37
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
7,064
views
views
38
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
6,895
views
views
39
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
6,735
views
views
40
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
5,992
views
views
41
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
5,905
views
views
42
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
5,528
views
views
43
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
5,178
views
views
44
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
4,722
views
views
45
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
4,683
views
views
46
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
4,674
views
views
47
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
4,668
views
views
48
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
4,561
views
views
49
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
4,534
views
views
50
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909β1966)
4,492
views
views
51
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
4,417
views
views
52
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
4,302
views
views
53
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
4,257
views
views
54
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
4,200
views
views
55
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
4,106
views
views
56
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
3,962
views
views
57
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
3,760
views
views
58
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
3,716
views
views
59
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
3,689
views
views
60
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
3,488
views
views
61
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
3,425
views
views
62
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
3,393
views
views
63
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928β2025)
3,335
views
views
64
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
3,314
views
views
65
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
3,306
views
views
66
Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006)
3,269
views
views
67
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
3,238
views
views
68
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
3,195
views
views
69
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
3,180
views
views
70
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
3,069
views
views
71
Benedetto Vigna
Italian physicist
2,995
views
views
72
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
2,958
views
views
73
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936β2021)
2,900
views
views
74
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
2,861
views
views
75
Harold E. Puthoff
American physicist
2,853
views
views
76
Leonard Susskind
American physicist
2,836
views
views
77
Richard D. Field
emeritus professor of physics
2,807
views
views
78
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871β1937)
2,755
views
views
79
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
2,746
views
views
80
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
2,738
views
views
81
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
2,724
views
views
82
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
2,694
views
views
83
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
2,645
views
views
84
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
2,571
views
views
85
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
2,483
views
views
86
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
2,464
views
views
87
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
2,461
views
views
88
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933β2002)
2,415
views
views
89
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
2,413
views
views
90
Fidel Γngel Castro DΓaz-Balart
first son of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro
2,394
views
views
91
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
2,379
views
views
92
Don Lincoln
American physicist
2,367
views
views
93
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
2,321
views
views
94
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882β1935)
2,262
views
views
95
Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist (1926-2020)
2,241
views
views
96
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
2,212
views
views
97
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048β1131)
2,211
views
views
98
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
2,204
views
views
99
Julius Sumner Miller
American physicist
2,184
views
views
100
Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.
1940s physicist who died of radiation poisoning (1921β1945)
2,182
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