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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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1
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
πŸ“š 92 citations Person
41,501
views
2
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
πŸ“š 102 citations Person
31,949
views
3
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
27,784
views
4
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
26,303
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
24,678
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452βˆ’1519)
πŸ“š 55 citations Person
23,042
views
7
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904–1967)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
22,078
views
8
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
20,889
views
9
Sally Ride
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
19,486
views
10
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
πŸ“š 50 citations Person
19,380
views
11
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
πŸ“š 72 citations Person
18,642
views
12
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
17,362
views
13
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
16,350
views
14
Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
15,495
views
15
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
πŸ“š 41 citations Person
14,748
views
16
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
13,897
views
17
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
13,113
views
18
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
12,995
views
19
Aristotle
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
12,367
views
20
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
12,199
views
21
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
πŸ“š 52 citations Person
10,161
views
22
Louis Slotin
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
9,923
views
23
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
9,726
views
24
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
9,331
views
25
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
9,270
views
26
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
πŸ“š 133 citations Person
9,202
views
27
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
8,952
views
28
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
8,768
views
29
RenΓ© Descartes
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
8,689
views
30
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
πŸ“š 76 citations Person
8,100
views
31
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
7,892
views
32
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
7,473
views
33
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
7,468
views
34
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
7,334
views
35
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
πŸ“š 75 citations Person
7,324
views
36
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
7,317
views
37
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
7,064
views
38
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
6,895
views
39
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
6,735
views
40
Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
5,992
views
41
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
πŸ“š 81 citations Person
5,905
views
42
Edward Teller
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
5,528
views
43
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
5,178
views
44
Avicenna
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
4,722
views
45
Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
4,683
views
46
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
4,674
views
47
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
4,668
views
48
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
Person
4,561
views
49
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
4,534
views
50
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
4,492
views
51
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
4,417
views
52
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
4,302
views
53
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
πŸ“š 74 citations Person
4,257
views
54
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
4,200
views
55
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
4,106
views
56
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
Person
3,962
views
57
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
3,760
views
58
Rajnath Singh
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
3,716
views
59
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
3,689
views
60
Kurt GΓΆdel
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
3,488
views
61
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
3,425
views
62
Mileva Marić
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
3,393
views
63
Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928–2025)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
3,335
views
64
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
3,314
views
65
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
3,306
views
66
Raymond Davis Jr.
Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
3,269
views
67
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
3,238
views
68
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
3,195
views
69
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
3,180
views
70
Hans Albert Einstein
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
3,069
views
71
Benedetto Vigna
Italian physicist
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
2,995
views
72
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
2,958
views
73
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936–2021)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
2,900
views
74
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
2,861
views
75
Harold E. Puthoff
American physicist
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
2,853
views
76
Leonard Susskind
American physicist
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
2,836
views
77
Richard D. Field
emeritus professor of physics
Person
2,807
views
78
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
2,755
views
79
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
2,746
views
80
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
2,738
views
81
Max Born
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
2,724
views
82
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
πŸ“š 76 citations Person
2,694
views
83
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
2,645
views
84
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
2,571
views
85
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
2,483
views
86
Thales
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
2,464
views
87
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
2,461
views
88
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933–2002)
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
2,415
views
89
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
πŸ“š 69 citations Person
2,413
views
90
Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart
first son of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
2,394
views
91
Edward Witten
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
2,379
views
92
Don Lincoln
American physicist
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
2,367
views
93
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
2,321
views
94
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
πŸ“š 31 citations Person
2,262
views
95
Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist (1926-2020)
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
2,241
views
96
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
2,212
views
97
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
2,211
views
98
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β€” 1703)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
2,204
views
99
Julius Sumner Miller
American physicist
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
2,184
views
100
Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.
1940s physicist who died of radiation poisoning (1921–1945)
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
2,182
views