Trending Physicists in Japan this year
The 100 most-viewed physicists this year on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci.
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31,207
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
1,468
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
1,402
views
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
1,101
views
views
4
Sakuma ShΕzan
Japanese politician (1811-1864)
1,023
views
views
5
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
982
views
views
6
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
880
views
views
7
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
863
views
views
8
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
804
views
views
9
Yoichiro Nambu
American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)
719
views
views
10
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
706
views
views
11
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
683
views
views
12
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
672
views
views
13
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
660
views
views
14
Naoto Kan
94th Prime Minister of Japan
651
views
views
15
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
630
views
views
16
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
623
views
views
17
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
616
views
views
18
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
597
views
views
19
Yoshitaka Yamamoto
Japanese physicist
584
views
views
20
Hideki Yukawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
526
views
views
21
Akio Morita
Japanese businessman (1921-1999)
520
views
views
22
Nikolai Kardashev
Soviet and Russian astronomer
431
views
views
23
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
428
views
views
24
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
427
views
views
25
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
424
views
views
26
Makoto Kikuchi
Japanese physicist (1958-)
369
views
views
27
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist (1925-)
366
views
views
28
Yamakawa KenjirΕ
Japanese physicist (1854-1931)
358
views
views
29
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
331
views
views
30
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
326
views
views
31
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
321
views
views
32
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
321
views
views
33
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
308
views
views
34
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
276
views
views
35
Torahiko Terada
Japanese physicist (1878β1935)
269
views
views
36
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
267
views
views
37
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
263
views
views
38
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
249
views
views
39
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
248
views
views
40
Yasunori Nomura
theoretical physicist
245
views
views
41
Shin'ichirΕ Tomonaga
Japanese physicist (1906-1979)
236
views
views
42
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
235
views
views
43
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
217
views
views
44
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
214
views
views
45
Masatoshi Koshiba
Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)
210
views
views
46
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
209
views
views
47
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
208
views
views
48
Yoshihiko Εtsuki
Japanese plasma physicist (born 1936)
197
views
views
49
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
194
views
views
50
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
190
views
views
51
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632β1723)
175
views
views
52
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
174
views
views
53
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
169
views
views
54
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
166
views
views
55
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928β2025)
161
views
views
56
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
158
views
views
57
Syukuro Manabe
Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931β)
152
views
views
58
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
151
views
views
59
Takaaki Kajita
Japanese physicist and astronomer
150
views
views
60
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
144
views
views
61
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
140
views
views
62
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
140
views
views
63
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
139
views
views
64
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766β1844)
138
views
views
65
Yoshio Nishina
Japanese physicist (1890β1951)
136
views
views
66
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
134
views
views
67
Hiroshi Amano
Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
134
views
views
68
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
133
views
views
69
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Japanese physicist (1926-2018)
131
views
views
70
Keisuke Fujii
Japanese physicist researching quantum information
131
views
views
71
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
131
views
views
72
Nagaoka HantarΕ
Japanese physicist (1865β1950)
127
views
views
73
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
121
views
views
74
Hideo Εno
Japanese physicist
121
views
views
75
Isamu Akasaki
Japanese engineer (1929-2021)
119
views
views
76
Toshihide Maskawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1940β2021)
119
views
views
77
Aikitu Tanakadate
Japanese physicist
118
views
views
78
Wilhelm RΓΆntgen
German physicist (1845β1923)
117
views
views
79
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749β1827)
116
views
views
80
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
116
views
views
81
Akira Yamamoto
Japanese physicist
114
views
views
82
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
114
views
views
83
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
113
views
views
84
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736β1813)
109
views
views
85
Ukichiro Nakaya
Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences (1900-1962)
109
views
views
86
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
107
views
views
87
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
102
views
views
88
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
100
views
views
89
Masato Sagawa
Japanese physicist (1943-)
98
views
views
90
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
98
views
views
91
Albert Fert
French physicist, Nobel laureate in physics
98
views
views
92
Henri PoincarΓ©
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854β1912)
96
views
views
93
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
95
views
views
94
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
95
views
views
95
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
94
views
views
96
Makoto Kobayashi
Japanese theoretical physicist (1944β)
93
views
views
97
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
93
views
views
98
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
91
views
views
99
KΕtarΕ Honda
Japanese physicist and metallurgist (1870-1954)
90
views
views
100
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
90
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