Trending Physicists in USA this week
The 100 most-viewed physicists this week on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Sally Ride.
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729,486
Total Views (this week)
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1
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
118,917
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
35,003
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
26,391
views
views
4
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
23,960
views
views
5
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
23,123
views
views
6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
21,090
views
views
7
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
19,740
views
views
8
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
19,543
views
views
9
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
17,701
views
views
10
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
17,215
views
views
11
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
13,534
views
views
12
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
12,931
views
views
13
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
11,372
views
views
14
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
11,295
views
views
15
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
11,087
views
views
16
Steven Hawley
American astronaut
10,858
views
views
17
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
10,791
views
views
18
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
10,546
views
views
19
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
10,223
views
views
20
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
10,079
views
views
21
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
10,019
views
views
22
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
8,911
views
views
23
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
7,660
views
views
24
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
7,535
views
views
25
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
7,496
views
views
26
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
7,340
views
views
27
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
7,337
views
views
28
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
7,035
views
views
29
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
6,503
views
views
30
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
6,371
views
views
31
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
6,220
views
views
32
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
6,182
views
views
33
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
6,069
views
views
34
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
5,698
views
views
35
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
5,596
views
views
36
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
5,532
views
views
37
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
5,316
views
views
38
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
5,303
views
views
39
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
4,916
views
views
40
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
4,605
views
views
41
Benedetto Vigna
Italian physicist
4,593
views
views
42
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
4,251
views
views
43
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
4,235
views
views
44
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
4,182
views
views
45
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
3,977
views
views
46
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
3,663
views
views
47
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
3,658
views
views
48
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
3,557
views
views
49
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
3,539
views
views
50
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
3,538
views
views
51
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
3,526
views
views
52
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
3,470
views
views
53
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
3,352
views
views
54
Harold E. Puthoff
American physicist
3,205
views
views
55
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
3,031
views
views
56
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
3,029
views
views
57
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882β1935)
2,998
views
views
58
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
2,937
views
views
59
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
2,908
views
views
60
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
2,896
views
views
61
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
2,875
views
views
62
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909β1966)
2,845
views
views
63
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
2,800
views
views
64
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
2,789
views
views
65
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
2,786
views
views
66
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
2,758
views
views
67
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
2,714
views
views
68
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
2,694
views
views
69
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
2,660
views
views
70
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
2,622
views
views
71
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
2,561
views
views
72
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928β2025)
2,559
views
views
73
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
2,546
views
views
74
Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.
1940s physicist who died of radiation poisoning (1921β1945)
2,507
views
views
75
William of Ockham
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287β1347)
2,502
views
views
76
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
2,393
views
views
77
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871β1937)
2,387
views
views
78
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
2,365
views
views
79
Richard D. Field
emeritus professor of physics
2,329
views
views
80
Lisa Randall
American theoretical physicist
2,294
views
views
81
Fidel Γngel Castro DΓaz-Balart
first son of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro
2,180
views
views
82
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
2,179
views
views
83
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
2,155
views
views
84
Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist (1926-2020)
2,112
views
views
85
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
2,062
views
views
86
Jeremy Hansen
Canadian astronaut (born 1976)
2,057
views
views
87
John Clarke
British physicist (born 1942)
2,046
views
views
88
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
2,013
views
views
89
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
1,996
views
views
90
Satyendra Nath Bose
Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894β1974)
1,990
views
views
91
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
1,973
views
views
92
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
1,966
views
views
93
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
1,960
views
views
94
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933β2002)
1,955
views
views
95
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
1,953
views
views
96
LΓ©on Foucault
French physicist (1819β1868)
1,935
views
views
97
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
1,902
views
views
98
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
1,855
views
views
99
Julius Sumner Miller
American physicist
1,845
views
views
100
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
1,778
views
views
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