Trending Physicists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed physicists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein.
100
Ranked
2,435,763
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
140,641
views
views
2
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904β1967)
131,060
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
95,286
views
views
4
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
92,597
views
views
5
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
81,334
views
views
6
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
76,433
views
views
7
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
71,701
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642β1727)
69,216
views
views
9
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
52,978
views
views
10
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
52,815
views
views
11
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
47,077
views
views
12
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
46,775
views
views
13
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
45,696
views
views
14
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
44,347
views
views
15
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
44,047
views
views
16
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
42,204
views
views
17
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
36,201
views
views
18
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
35,319
views
views
19
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
34,534
views
views
20
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564β1642)
33,931
views
views
21
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
32,187
views
views
22
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
30,473
views
views
23
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
29,838
views
views
24
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
27,838
views
views
25
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
27,258
views
views
26
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
26,555
views
views
27
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
26,331
views
views
28
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
25,530
views
views
29
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
25,390
views
views
30
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
25,185
views
views
31
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
24,769
views
views
32
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
24,451
views
views
33
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
24,001
views
views
34
Kurt GΓΆdel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906β1978)
23,806
views
views
35
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
23,363
views
views
36
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
22,489
views
views
37
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
21,459
views
views
38
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
21,069
views
views
39
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
20,760
views
views
40
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
16,435
views
views
41
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
16,390
views
views
42
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909β1966)
16,333
views
views
43
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
16,021
views
views
44
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
15,907
views
views
45
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
15,370
views
views
46
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
15,061
views
views
47
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
14,866
views
views
48
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
14,775
views
views
49
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
14,462
views
views
50
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
14,349
views
views
51
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
14,269
views
views
52
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
14,115
views
views
53
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
13,691
views
views
54
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
13,631
views
views
55
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
13,519
views
views
56
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
13,373
views
views
57
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
13,308
views
views
58
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
13,230
views
views
59
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
12,539
views
views
60
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
12,467
views
views
61
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
12,207
views
views
62
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
12,149
views
views
63
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
12,124
views
views
64
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
12,051
views
views
65
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
11,920
views
views
66
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882β1970)
11,766
views
views
67
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928β2025)
11,374
views
views
68
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
11,313
views
views
69
Frank Oppenheimer
American particle physicist (1912β1985)
11,006
views
views
70
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930β2002)
10,499
views
views
71
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
10,299
views
views
72
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
10,104
views
views
73
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
9,963
views
views
74
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933β2002)
9,931
views
views
75
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
9,775
views
views
76
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
9,647
views
views
77
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
9,622
views
views
78
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
9,585
views
views
79
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871β1937)
9,403
views
views
80
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
9,372
views
views
81
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
9,350
views
views
82
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919β1971)
9,323
views
views
83
Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901β1958)
9,030
views
views
84
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
8,803
views
views
85
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
8,654
views
views
86
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
8,395
views
views
87
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
8,259
views
views
88
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
8,222
views
views
89
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
8,213
views
views
90
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor and painter (1791β1872)
8,039
views
views
91
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
7,804
views
views
92
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
7,765
views
views
93
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
7,580
views
views
94
Pavel Jungwirth
Czech chemist and academic (1966β2026)
7,466
views
views
95
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
7,465
views
views
96
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
7,380
views
views
97
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882β1935)
7,262
views
views
98
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
7,240
views
views
99
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928β2025)
7,226
views
views
100
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
7,122
views
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