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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
Sally Ride
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
133,616
views
2
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
πŸ“š 92 citations Person
81,056
views
3
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
πŸ“š 102 citations Person
57,783
views
4
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
51,603
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
47,627
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452βˆ’1519)
πŸ“š 55 citations Person
45,445
views
7
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
πŸ“š 50 citations Person
44,511
views
8
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
πŸ“š 72 citations Person
41,901
views
9
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904–1967)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
41,058
views
10
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
41,008
views
11
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
37,274
views
12
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
31,329
views
13
Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
28,861
views
14
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
28,654
views
15
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
πŸ“š 41 citations Person
26,831
views
16
Aristotle
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
25,658
views
17
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
25,261
views
18
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
24,419
views
19
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
23,858
views
20
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
πŸ“š 52 citations Person
20,435
views
21
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
πŸ“š 133 citations Person
17,984
views
22
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
17,596
views
23
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
17,553
views
24
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
17,484
views
25
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
16,769
views
26
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
15,729
views
27
RenΓ© Descartes
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
15,625
views
28
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
πŸ“š 76 citations Person
15,439
views
29
Louis Slotin
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
15,300
views
30
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
14,580
views
31
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
14,546
views
32
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
14,438
views
33
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
14,378
views
34
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
13,989
views
35
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
πŸ“š 75 citations Person
13,703
views
36
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
13,598
views
37
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
13,159
views
38
Steven Hawley
Steven Hawley
American astronaut
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
12,158
views
39
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
11,731
views
40
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
πŸ“š 81 citations Person
11,365
views
41
Edward Teller
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
10,997
views
42
Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
10,420
views
43
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
10,347
views
44
Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
9,530
views
45
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
8,959
views
46
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
8,911
views
47
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
8,796
views
48
Avicenna
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
8,775
views
49
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
8,724
views
50
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
8,720
views
51
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
πŸ“š 74 citations Person
8,622
views
52
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
8,557
views
53
Benedetto Vigna
Italian physicist
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
8,513
views
54
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
8,297
views
55
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
8,147
views
56
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
7,983
views
57
Rajnath Singh
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
7,575
views
58
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
7,508
views
59
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
Person
7,107
views
60
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
6,942
views
61
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
6,884
views
62
Kurt GΓΆdel
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
6,876
views
63
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
6,738
views
64
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
6,662
views
65
Mileva Marić
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
6,518
views
66
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
Person
6,506
views
67
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
6,398
views
68
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
6,375
views
69
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
6,299
views
70
Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928–2025)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
6,145
views
71
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
πŸ“š 39 citations Person
6,018
views
72
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
5,927
views
73
Harold E. Puthoff
American physicist
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
5,864
views
74
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
5,813
views
75
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
5,712
views
76
Hans Albert Einstein
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
5,701
views
77
Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist (1926-2020)
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
5,465
views
78
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
πŸ“š 31 citations Person
5,409
views
79
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
5,324
views
80
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
πŸ“š 4 citations Person
5,224
views
81
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936–2021)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
5,213
views
82
Thales
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
5,194
views
83
Max Born
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
5,164
views
84
Richard D. Field
emeritus professor of physics
Person
5,125
views
85
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
4,916
views
86
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
πŸ“š 76 citations Person
4,857
views
87
Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart
first son of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
4,830
views
88
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
4,756
views
89
Edward Witten
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
4,644
views
90
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933–2002)
πŸ“š 9 citations Person
4,565
views
91
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
πŸ“š 69 citations Person
4,517
views
92
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
4,496
views
93
Jeremy Hansen
Jeremy Hansen
Canadian astronaut (born 1976)
Person
4,462
views
94
William of Ockham
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)
πŸ“š 25 citations Person
4,434
views
95
Satyendra Nath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose
Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)
πŸ“š 18 citations Person
4,349
views
96
Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.
1940s physicist who died of radiation poisoning (1921–1945)
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
4,332
views
97
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
4,281
views
98
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
4,258
views
99
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
4,233
views
100
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
4,223
views