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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20,790
Total Views (this month)
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1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
981
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2
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
906
views
views
3
Sakuma ShΕzan
Japanese politician (1811-1864)
768
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views
4
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
700
views
views
5
Yoichiro Nambu
American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)
640
views
views
6
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
635
views
views
7
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
612
views
views
8
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
582
views
views
9
Yoshitaka Yamamoto
Japanese physicist
500
views
views
10
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
488
views
views
11
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
471
views
views
12
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
433
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views
13
Naoto Kan
94th Prime Minister of Japan
433
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views
14
Nikolai Kardashev
Soviet and Russian astronomer
428
views
views
15
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
423
views
views
16
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
416
views
views
17
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
394
views
views
18
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
389
views
views
19
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
381
views
views
20
Makoto Kikuchi
Japanese physicist (1958-)
341
views
views
21
Hideki Yukawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
335
views
views
22
Akio Morita
Japanese businessman (1921-1999)
322
views
views
23
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
317
views
views
24
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
284
views
views
25
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist (1925-)
261
views
views
26
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
254
views
views
27
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
243
views
views
28
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
233
views
views
29
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
218
views
views
30
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
212
views
views
31
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
207
views
views
32
Torahiko Terada
Japanese physicist (1878β1935)
189
views
views
33
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
189
views
views
34
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
187
views
views
35
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
178
views
views
36
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
168
views
views
37
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
167
views
views
38
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
167
views
views
39
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
165
views
views
40
Shin'ichirΕ Tomonaga
Japanese physicist (1906-1979)
162
views
views
41
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
143
views
views
42
Masatoshi Koshiba
Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)
143
views
views
43
Yasunori Nomura
theoretical physicist
131
views
views
44
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
129
views
views
45
Yamakawa KenjirΕ
Japanese physicist (1854-1931)
128
views
views
46
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
126
views
views
47
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
126
views
views
48
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
125
views
views
49
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
122
views
views
50
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928β2025)
121
views
views
51
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
121
views
views
52
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766β1844)
117
views
views
53
Yoshihiko Εtsuki
Japanese plasma physicist (born 1936)
116
views
views
54
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
112
views
views
55
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
107
views
views
56
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
105
views
views
57
Syukuro Manabe
Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931β)
104
views
views
58
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
104
views
views
59
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
102
views
views
60
Keisuke Fujii
Japanese physicist researching quantum information
101
views
views
61
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
101
views
views
62
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
98
views
views
63
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Japanese physicist (1926-2018)
97
views
views
64
Albert Fert
French physicist, Nobel laureate in physics
97
views
views
65
Yoshio Nishina
Japanese physicist (1890β1951)
96
views
views
66
Aikitu Tanakadate
Japanese physicist
94
views
views
67
Takaaki Kajita
Japanese physicist and astronomer
93
views
views
68
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
93
views
views
69
Hideo Εno
Japanese physicist
91
views
views
70
Hiroshi Amano
Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
88
views
views
71
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632β1723)
87
views
views
72
Toshihide Maskawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1940β2021)
85
views
views
73
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
84
views
views
74
Nagaoka HantarΕ
Japanese physicist (1865β1950)
83
views
views
75
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
80
views
views
76
Masato Sagawa
Japanese physicist (1943-)
79
views
views
77
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
78
views
views
78
Wilhelm RΓΆntgen
German physicist (1845β1923)
78
views
views
79
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
78
views
views
80
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
77
views
views
81
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749β1827)
76
views
views
82
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
75
views
views
83
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736β1813)
74
views
views
84
Isamu Akasaki
Japanese engineer (1929-2021)
71
views
views
85
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
70
views
views
86
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
66
views
views
87
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
66
views
views
88
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
63
views
views
89
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
62
views
views
90
Henri PoincarΓ©
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854β1912)
62
views
views
91
Ukichiro Nakaya
Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences (1900-1962)
61
views
views
92
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908β1968)
60
views
views
93
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880β1930)
60
views
views
94
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
60
views
views
95
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
59
views
views
96
KΕtarΕ Honda
Japanese physicist and metallurgist (1870-1954)
59
views
views
97
Hidetsugu Yagi
Japanese electrical engineer (1886β1976)
58
views
views
98
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
58
views
views
99
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
56
views
views
100
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
55
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