Trending Physicists this year
The 100 most-viewed physicists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein.
100
Ranked
1,969,335
Total Views (this year)
Country
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๐จ๐ณ China
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879โ1955)
116,095
views
views
2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
77,354
views
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856โ1943)
75,089
views
views
4
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867โ1934)
66,629
views
views
5
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706โ1790)
66,112
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
64,383
views
views
7
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
60,326
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642โ1727)
58,810
views
views
9
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904โ1967)
54,718
views
views
10
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912โ1977)
45,150
views
views
11
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
44,291
views
views
12
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
41,621
views
views
13
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
35,738
views
views
14
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
35,477
views
views
15
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847โ1931)
35,021
views
views
16
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918โ1988)
34,529
views
views
17
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564โ1642)
32,275
views
views
18
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
31,935
views
views
19
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
30,491
views
views
20
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
30,371
views
views
21
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
27,612
views
views
22
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
24,376
views
views
23
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
23,500
views
views
24
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847โ1922)
23,115
views
views
25
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
23,050
views
views
26
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
22,247
views
views
27
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
20,652
views
views
28
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
20,493
views
views
29
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
20,426
views
views
30
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749โ1832)
19,910
views
views
31
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
19,726
views
views
32
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903โ1957)
19,213
views
views
33
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917โ2008)
18,924
views
views
34
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
18,880
views
views
35
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901โ1976)
18,682
views
views
36
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909โ1966)
17,893
views
views
37
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
17,621
views
views
38
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
17,391
views
views
39
Erwin Schrรถdinger
Austrian physicist (1887โ1961)
14,373
views
views
40
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834โ1907)
14,119
views
views
41
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
13,939
views
views
42
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646โ1716)
13,551
views
views
43
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
13,428
views
views
44
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
13,210
views
views
45
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
12,738
views
views
46
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885โ1962)
12,540
views
views
47
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791โ1867)
12,523
views
views
48
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
12,384
views
views
49
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
12,350
views
views
50
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920โ1958)
11,905
views
views
51
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
11,097
views
views
52
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908โ2003)
10,893
views
views
53
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
10,819
views
views
54
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858โ1947)
10,609
views
views
55
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
10,546
views
views
56
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868โ1934)
10,312
views
views
57
Enrico Fermi
ItalianโAmerican physicist (1901โ1954)
10,027
views
views
58
Kurt Gรถdel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906โ1978)
9,989
views
views
59
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 โ 1703)
9,808
views
views
60
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888โ1970)
9,799
views
views
61
Triveni Rao
indian-American physicist
9,786
views
views
62
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831โ1879)
9,637
views
views
63
Mileva Mariฤ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875โ1948)
9,403
views
views
64
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859โ1906)
9,065
views
views
65
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901โ1994)
8,996
views
views
66
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930โ2002)
8,936
views
views
67
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
8,752
views
views
68
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
8,674
views
views
69
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
8,531
views
views
70
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
8,428
views
views
71
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902โ1984)
8,374
views
views
72
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928โ2025)
8,265
views
views
73
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
8,089
views
views
74
Irรจne Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897โ1956)
8,023
views
views
75
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
7,987
views
views
76
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
7,975
views
views
77
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871โ1937)
7,851
views
views
78
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906โ1992)
7,639
views
views
79
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919โ1971)
7,441
views
views
80
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
7,434
views
views
81
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
7,198
views
views
82
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
7,038
views
views
83
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor and painter (1791โ1872)
7,027
views
views
84
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
6,993
views
views
85
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
6,851
views
views
86
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
6,838
views
views
87
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist (1977โ2025)
6,789
views
views
88
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933โ2002)
6,680
views
views
89
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ1131)
6,615
views
views
90
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882โ1970)
6,507
views
views
91
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
6,448
views
views
92
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632โ1723)
6,316
views
views
93
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928โ2025)
6,214
views
views
94
James Watt
British engineer (1736โ1819)
6,043
views
views
95
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862โ1943)
5,981
views
views
96
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882โ1935)
5,934
views
views
97
Wilhelm Rรถntgen
German physicist (1845โ1923)
5,894
views
views
98
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921โ1989)
5,872
views
views
99
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959โ2015)
5,866
views
views
100
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844โ1906)
5,860
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views
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