Trending Astronomers in Japan this month
The 100 most-viewed astronomers this month on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.
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10,211
Total Views (this month)
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1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
981
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2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
635
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3
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
612
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4
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564β1642)
488
views
views
5
Abe no Seimei
Japanese onmyΕji
429
views
views
6
Nikolai Kardashev
Soviet and Russian astronomer
428
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642β1727)
394
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views
8
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
381
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views
9
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
254
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views
10
Sima Qian
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
245
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views
11
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
243
views
views
12
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
212
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views
13
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
207
views
views
14
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493β1541)
203
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views
15
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503β1566)
199
views
views
16
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
170
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views
17
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
168
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views
18
Albert Brudzewski
Polish academic and diplomat
138
views
views
19
Toghon TemΓΌr
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
131
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views
20
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
129
views
views
21
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
126
views
views
22
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
122
views
views
23
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
118
views
views
24
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546β1601
113
views
views
25
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
105
views
views
26
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
101
views
views
27
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548β1600)
98
views
views
28
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081β1124)
98
views
views
29
Queen Seondeok of Silla
queen-regnant of Silla
93
views
views
30
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
77
views
views
31
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749β1827)
76
views
views
32
Shibukawa Shunkai
Japanese astronomer
74
views
views
33
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736β1813)
74
views
views
34
Menelaus of Alexandria
Greek mathematician and astronomer
67
views
views
35
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
66
views
views
36
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
63
views
views
37
Tsuruhiko Kiuchi
Japanese amateur astronomer
63
views
views
38
Henri PoincarΓ©
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854β1912)
62
views
views
39
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310βc.230 BC)
62
views
views
40
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
61
views
views
41
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880β1930)
60
views
views
42
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
52
views
views
43
Cai Yong
Chinese official and scholar (132-192)
49
views
views
44
MuαΈ₯ammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
49
views
views
45
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048β1131)
48
views
views
46
Hayato Shimabukuro
Japanese astronomer
46
views
views
47
John Harrison
British clockworker
44
views
views
48
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
44
views
views
49
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
44
views
views
50
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824β1907)
43
views
views
51
Camille Flammarion
French astronomer and author (1842β1925)
42
views
views
52
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
39
views
views
53
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738β1822)
39
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views
54
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656β1742)
39
views
views
55
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791β1871)
38
views
views
56
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
36
views
views
57
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550β1617)
35
views
views
58
Satoru Ikeuchi
Japanese astronomer
34
views
views
59
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
34
views
views
60
Toshima Araki
Japanese astronomer
34
views
views
61
HΕei Nojiri
Japanese astronomer (1885-1977)
34
views
views
62
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
33
views
views
63
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
33
views
views
64
Hipparchus
2nd century Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician
32
views
views
65
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889β1953)
32
views
views
66
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
31
views
views
67
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629β1695)
31
views
views
68
Clyde Tombaugh
American astronomer (1906β1997)
30
views
views
69
Liu Ji
Chinese philosopher and politician (1311β1375)
30
views
views
70
Jun'ichi Watanabe
Japanese astronomer
29
views
views
71
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 β c. 1040)
29
views
views
72
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 β β 1712)
29
views
views
73
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486β1535)
27
views
views
74
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
27
views
views
75
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
26
views
views
76
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
26
views
views
77
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
26
views
views
78
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890β1962)
25
views
views
79
William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)
25
views
views
80
Liu Xiang
Chinese official, scholar and writer (77β6 BCE)
25
views
views
81
Yamagata BantΕ
scholar
25
views
views
82
Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 β c. 668 CE)
24
views
views
83
Chang YΕngsil
Korean mechanical engineer, scientist and inventor
24
views
views
84
SimΓ©on Denis Poisson
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781β1840)
24
views
views
85
Hisashi Kimura
Japanese astronomer (1870β1943)
23
views
views
86
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126β1198)
23
views
views
87
LΓ©on Foucault
French physicist (1819β1868)
22
views
views
88
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
22
views
views
89
Theodore von KΓ‘rmΓ‘n
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881β1963)
22
views
views
90
Akira Fujii
Japanese astrophotographer (1941β2022)
21
views
views
91
Wang Chong
1st century Chinese meteorologist, astronomer, and philosopher
20
views
views
92
Takafumi Matsui
Japanese astronomer
19
views
views
93
George Gamow
Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904β1968)
19
views
views
94
Asada Goryu
Japanese astronomer
19
views
views
95
Norio Kaifu
Japanese astronomer
19
views
views
96
Qiao Zhou
Shu Han official and scholar (died 270)
19
views
views
97
Xu Guangqi
late-Ming-dynasty Chinese politician, Scholar, Lay Catholic leader and Servant of God (*1562 β β 1633)
18
views
views
98
Sadao Murayama
Japanese astronomer
18
views
views
99
KΕichi Itagaki
Japanese entrepreneur and astronomer
18
views
views
100
Chushiro Hayashi
Japanese astrophysicist (1920β2010)
17
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