Trending Physicists in USA this month
The 100 most-viewed physicists this month on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Sally Ride.
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1,543,449
Total Views (this month)
Country
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1
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
133,616
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
81,056
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
57,783
views
views
4
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
51,603
views
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
47,627
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
45,445
views
views
7
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
44,511
views
views
8
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
41,901
views
views
9
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
41,058
views
views
10
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
41,008
views
views
11
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
37,274
views
views
12
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
31,329
views
views
13
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
28,861
views
views
14
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
28,654
views
views
15
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
26,831
views
views
16
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
25,658
views
views
17
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
25,261
views
views
18
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
24,419
views
views
19
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
23,858
views
views
20
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
20,435
views
views
21
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
17,984
views
views
22
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
17,596
views
views
23
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
17,553
views
views
24
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
17,484
views
views
25
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
16,769
views
views
26
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
15,729
views
views
27
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
15,625
views
views
28
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
15,439
views
views
29
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
15,300
views
views
30
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
14,580
views
views
31
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
14,546
views
views
32
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
14,438
views
views
33
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
14,378
views
views
34
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
13,989
views
views
35
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
13,703
views
views
36
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
13,598
views
views
37
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
13,159
views
views
38
Steven Hawley
American astronaut
12,158
views
views
39
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
11,731
views
views
40
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
11,365
views
views
41
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
10,997
views
views
42
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
10,420
views
views
43
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
10,347
views
views
44
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
9,530
views
views
45
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
8,959
views
views
46
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909β1966)
8,911
views
views
47
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930β2002)
8,796
views
views
48
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
8,775
views
views
49
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
8,724
views
views
50
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
8,720
views
views
51
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
8,622
views
views
52
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
8,557
views
views
53
Benedetto Vigna
Italian physicist
8,513
views
views
54
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
8,297
views
views
55
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
8,147
views
views
56
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
7,983
views
views
57
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
7,575
views
views
58
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
7,508
views
views
59
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
7,107
views
views
60
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
6,942
views
views
61
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
6,884
views
views
62
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
6,876
views
views
63
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
6,738
views
views
64
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
6,662
views
views
65
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
6,518
views
views
66
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
6,506
views
views
67
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
6,398
views
views
68
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
6,375
views
views
69
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
6,299
views
views
70
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928β2025)
6,145
views
views
71
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
6,018
views
views
72
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
5,927
views
views
73
Harold E. Puthoff
American physicist
5,864
views
views
74
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
5,813
views
views
75
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
5,712
views
views
76
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
5,701
views
views
77
Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist (1926-2020)
5,465
views
views
78
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882β1935)
5,409
views
views
79
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871β1937)
5,324
views
views
80
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
5,224
views
views
81
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936β2021)
5,213
views
views
82
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
5,194
views
views
83
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
5,164
views
views
84
Richard D. Field
emeritus professor of physics
5,125
views
views
85
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
4,916
views
views
86
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
4,857
views
views
87
Fidel Γngel Castro DΓaz-Balart
first son of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro
4,830
views
views
88
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
4,756
views
views
89
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
4,644
views
views
90
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933β2002)
4,565
views
views
91
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
4,517
views
views
92
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
4,496
views
views
93
Jeremy Hansen
Canadian astronaut (born 1976)
4,462
views
views
94
William of Ockham
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287β1347)
4,434
views
views
95
Satyendra Nath Bose
Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894β1974)
4,349
views
views
96
Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.
1940s physicist who died of radiation poisoning (1921β1945)
4,332
views
views
97
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048β1131)
4,281
views
views
98
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
4,258
views
views
99
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
4,233
views
views
100
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
4,223
views
views
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