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Trending Physicists in Japan this month

The 100 most-viewed physicists this month on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.

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1
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452βˆ’1519)
πŸ“š 55 citations Person
981
views
2
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
πŸ“š 92 citations Person
906
views
3
Sakuma Shōzan
Japanese politician (1811-1864)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
768
views
4
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
700
views
5
Yoichiro Nambu
American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
640
views
6
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
πŸ“š 102 citations Person
635
views
7
Aristotle
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
612
views
8
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
582
views
9
Yoshitaka Yamamoto
Japanese physicist
Person
500
views
10
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
πŸ“š 52 citations Person
488
views
11
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
471
views
12
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
433
views
13
Naoto Kan
94th Prime Minister of Japan
πŸ“š 12 citations Person
433
views
14
Nikolai Kardashev
Soviet and Russian astronomer
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
428
views
15
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
πŸ“š 72 citations Person
423
views
16
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
πŸ“š 41 citations Person
416
views
17
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
394
views
18
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
πŸ“š 75 citations Person
389
views
19
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
381
views
20
Makoto Kikuchi
Japanese physicist (1958-)
Person
341
views
21
Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
335
views
22
Akio Morita
Akio Morita
Japanese businessman (1921-1999)
πŸ“š 20 citations Person
322
views
23
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904–1967)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
317
views
24
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
284
views
25
Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist (1925-)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
261
views
26
RenΓ© Descartes
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
254
views
27
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
243
views
28
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
233
views
29
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
218
views
30
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
πŸ“š 50 citations Person
212
views
31
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
πŸ“š 41 citations Person
207
views
32
Torahiko Terada
Torahiko Terada
Japanese physicist (1878–1935)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
189
views
33
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
189
views
34
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
187
views
35
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
πŸ“š 133 citations Person
178
views
36
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
168
views
37
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
167
views
38
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
167
views
39
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
165
views
40
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
Japanese physicist (1906-1979)
πŸ“š 23 citations Person
162
views
41
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
πŸ“š 76 citations Person
143
views
42
Masatoshi Koshiba
Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)
πŸ“š 20 citations Person
143
views
43
Yasunori Nomura
theoretical physicist
Person
131
views
44
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
129
views
45
Yamakawa Kenjirō
Japanese physicist (1854-1931)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
128
views
46
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
126
views
47
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
126
views
48
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
125
views
49
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
122
views
50
James Watson
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
121
views
51
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
121
views
52
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
117
views
53
Yoshihiko Ōtsuki
Japanese plasma physicist (born 1936)
Person
116
views
54
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
112
views
55
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
107
views
56
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β€” 1703)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
105
views
57
Syukuro Manabe
Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931–)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
104
views
58
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
104
views
59
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
102
views
60
Keisuke Fujii
Japanese physicist researching quantum information
Person
101
views
61
Thales
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
101
views
62
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
98
views
63
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Japanese physicist (1926-2018)
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
97
views
64
Albert Fert
French physicist, Nobel laureate in physics
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
97
views
65
Yoshio Nishina
Yoshio Nishina
Japanese physicist (1890–1951)
πŸ“š 11 citations Person
96
views
66
Aikitu Tanakadate
Aikitu Tanakadate
Japanese physicist
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
94
views
67
Takaaki Kajita
Japanese physicist and astronomer
πŸ“š 13 citations Person
93
views
68
James Watt
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
93
views
69
Hideo Ōno
Japanese physicist
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
91
views
70
Hiroshi Amano
Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
88
views
71
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
87
views
72
Toshihide Maskawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1940–2021)
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
85
views
73
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
84
views
74
Nagaoka Hantarō
Nagaoka Hantarō
Japanese physicist (1865–1950)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
83
views
75
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
πŸ“š 74 citations Person
80
views
76
Masato Sagawa
Japanese physicist (1943-)
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
79
views
77
Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
78
views
78
Wilhelm RΓΆntgen
Wilhelm RΓΆntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
78
views
79
Kurt GΓΆdel
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
78
views
80
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
77
views
81
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
76
views
82
Amedeo Avogadro
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
πŸ“š 22 citations Person
75
views
83
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
74
views
84
Isamu Akasaki
Japanese engineer (1929-2021)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
71
views
85
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
70
views
86
Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
66
views
87
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
66
views
88
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
63
views
89
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
62
views
90
Henri PoincarΓ©
Henri PoincarΓ©
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
62
views
91
Ukichiro Nakaya
Ukichiro Nakaya
Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences (1900-1962)
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
61
views
92
Lev Landau
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
60
views
93
Alfred Wegener
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
60
views
94
Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
60
views
95
Louis Slotin
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
59
views
96
Kōtarō Honda
Kōtarō Honda
Japanese physicist and metallurgist (1870-1954)
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
59
views
97
Hidetsugu Yagi
Japanese electrical engineer (1886–1976)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
58
views
98
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
58
views
99
Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
56
views
100
Edward Teller
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
55
views