Trending Astronomers in Russia this year
The 100 most-viewed astronomers this year on Wikipedia (Russia). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Avicenna.
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29,577
Total Views (this year)
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1
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
4,212
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2
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
2,041
views
views
3
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
1,738
views
views
4
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
1,606
views
views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
1,507
views
views
6
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
959
views
views
7
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048β1131)
954
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642β1727)
937
views
views
9
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564β1642)
666
views
views
10
Vladimir Surdin
Soviet and Russian astronomer
565
views
views
11
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
559
views
views
12
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548β1600)
485
views
views
13
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
475
views
views
14
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
471
views
views
15
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
470
views
views
16
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
464
views
views
17
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493β1541)
435
views
views
18
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
365
views
views
19
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
328
views
views
20
Nikolay Morozov
Russian revolutionary, scientist, writer
322
views
views
21
Hypatia
Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
310
views
views
22
Ulugh Beg
Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394β1449)
309
views
views
23
Otto Schmidt
Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)
298
views
views
24
Boris Stern
Russian astrophysicist and journalist
279
views
views
25
Hasan-i Sabbah
The founder of the Ismaili state of Alamut and the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis (1081β1124)
276
views
views
26
Avi Loeb
Israeli astrophysicist (1962-)
272
views
views
27
Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503β1566)
254
views
views
28
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
245
views
views
29
MuαΈ₯ammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
241
views
views
30
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
240
views
views
31
Toghon TemΓΌr
Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
227
views
views
32
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
217
views
views
33
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
210
views
views
34
Ptolemy
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
200
views
views
35
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
193
views
views
36
Henri PoincarΓ©
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854β1912)
192
views
views
37
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist (1916β2009)
185
views
views
38
Silver Surfer
fictional character in Marvel Comics
177
views
views
39
Eratosthenes
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
176
views
views
40
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
173
views
views
41
George Gamow
Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904β1968)
171
views
views
42
Moshe ben Maimon
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135β1204)
166
views
views
43
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
160
views
views
44
John of Damascus
Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
155
views
views
45
Jacob Bruce
Russian nobleman, field marshal and astronomer of Scottish descent (1669β1735)
152
views
views
46
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
151
views
views
47
Yakov Zeldovich
Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist (1914-1987)
147
views
views
48
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
143
views
views
49
Oleg Verkhodanov
143
views
views
50
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
136
views
views
51
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749β1827)
128
views
views
52
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736β1813)
120
views
views
53
Nicholas of Cusa
German philosopher (1401 β 1464)
120
views
views
54
Johann Georg Faust
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
119
views
views
55
John Dee
16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
115
views
views
56
Sima Qian
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
112
views
views
57
Muzaffar Nusratulloevich Makhsumov
108
views
views
58
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
107
views
views
59
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629β1695)
103
views
views
60
Iosif Shklovsky
Soviet astronomer (1916β1985)
101
views
views
61
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
99
views
views
62
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Baltic German astronomer (1793β1864)
98
views
views
63
Idris
prophet
95
views
views
64
Queen Seondeok of Silla
queen-regnant of Silla
93
views
views
65
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
92
views
views
66
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546β1601
92
views
views
67
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126β1198)
91
views
views
68
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738β1822)
87
views
views
69
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
84
views
views
70
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486β1535)
78
views
views
71
Nikolai Kardashev
Soviet and Russian astronomer
77
views
views
72
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev
Russian astronomer/astrophysicist (1908β1983)
77
views
views
73
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791β1871)
75
views
views
74
Sergey Popov
Russian astrophysicist
74
views
views
75
Sylvester II
Pope of the Catholic Church from 938 to 1003
73
views
views
76
Jane Foster
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
72
views
views
77
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
71
views
views
78
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310βc.230 BC)
71
views
views
79
Victor Ambartsumian
Soviet Armenian astrophysicist (1908β1996)
68
views
views
80
Konstantin Batygin
American astronomer and planetary scientist
63
views
views
81
Alastair Reynolds
British science fiction author (born 1966)
61
views
views
82
Vladimir Kotelnikov
Soviet scientist (1908-2005)
61
views
views
83
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
American geologist and astronomer
60
views
views
84
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
59
views
views
85
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889β1953)
56
views
views
86
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824β1907)
56
views
views
87
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656β1742)
55
views
views
88
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
55
views
views
89
Philipp Melanchthon
German reformer (1497-1560)
54
views
views
90
Oleg Bartunov
Russian programmer
53
views
views
91
Jabir ibn Hayyan
8th-century Islamic alchemist and author
52
views
views
92
Lucie Green
British astronomer
51
views
views
93
Franz Anton Mesmer
German physician
50
views
views
94
Percival Lowell
American astronomer (1855-1916)
49
views
views
95
Nick Gorkavyi
Russian-American astrophysicist and writer
49
views
views
96
Karl Schwarzschild
German physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1873β1916)
48
views
views
97
Leonid Kizim
Soviet cosmonaut (1941-2010)
47
views
views
98
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
47
views
views
99
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
47
views
views
100
Hipparchus
2nd century Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician
47
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