Trending Physicists in USA — the 7 days to 24 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 24 October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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923,793
Total Views (the 7 days to 24 October 2026)
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
56,668
views
views
2
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
41,244
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
33,016
views
views
4
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
32,033
views
views
5
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
30,488
views
views
6
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
30,280
views
views
7
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
29,701
views
views
8
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
28,656
views
views
9
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
20,231
views
views
10
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
19,604
views
views
11
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
19,116
views
views
12
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
18,404
views
views
13
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
16,456
views
views
14
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
14,756
views
views
15
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
14,019
views
views
16
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
13,868
views
views
17
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
13,504
views
views
18
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
13,381
views
views
19
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
13,300
views
views
20
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
13,209
views
views
21
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
12,609
views
views
22
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
12,127
views
views
23
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
12,027
views
views
24
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
11,953
views
views
25
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
11,296
views
views
26
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
10,473
views
views
27
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
10,208
views
views
28
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
10,035
views
views
29
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
10,011
views
views
30
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
9,502
views
views
31
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
9,009
views
views
32
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
8,816
views
views
33
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
8,527
views
views
34
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
8,521
views
views
35
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
8,495
views
views
36
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
8,238
views
views
37
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
8,157
views
views
38
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
7,161
views
views
39
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
7,078
views
views
40
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
6,984
views
views
41
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
6,808
views
views
42
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
6,618
views
views
43
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
6,302
views
views
44
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
6,249
views
views
45
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
6,208
views
views
46
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
5,999
views
views
47
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
5,977
views
views
48
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
5,780
views
views
49
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
5,766
views
views
50
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
5,581
views
views
51
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
5,570
views
views
52
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
5,566
views
views
53
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
5,529
views
views
54
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
5,458
views
views
55
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
5,429
views
views
56
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
5,253
views
views
57
Francis Halzen
Belgian-American astrophysicist
5,182
views
views
58
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
5,118
views
views
59
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
5,081
views
views
60
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
5,077
views
views
61
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
4,984
views
views
62
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
4,981
views
views
63
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
4,867
views
views
64
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
4,839
views
views
65
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
4,534
views
views
66
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
4,410
views
views
67
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
4,396
views
views
68
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
4,299
views
views
69
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
4,163
views
views
70
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
4,048
views
views
71
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
3,937
views
views
72
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
3,862
views
views
73
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
3,807
views
views
74
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
3,795
views
views
75
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
3,629
views
views
76
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928–2025)
3,616
views
views
77
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
3,613
views
views
78
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
3,608
views
views
79
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
3,601
views
views
80
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
3,577
views
views
81
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
3,377
views
views
82
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
3,342
views
views
83
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
3,340
views
views
84
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
3,319
views
views
85
Andrey Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician (1903–1987)
3,313
views
views
86
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist and Nobel laureate (1933–2026)
3,271
views
views
87
Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)
3,224
views
views
88
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
3,203
views
views
89
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
3,175
views
views
90
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
3,172
views
views
91
Ashoke Sen
Indian physicist
3,150
views
views
92
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
3,144
views
views
93
Carlo Rovelli
Italian physicist
3,135
views
views
94
Laura Overdeck
American maths education entrepreneur
3,086
views
views
95
Joseph John Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
3,078
views
views
96
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
3,062
views
views
97
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
3,042
views
views
98
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
3,035
views
views
99
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
3,029
views
views
100
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
3,018
views
views