Trending Physicists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed physicists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Sally Ride.
100
Ranked
1,972,106
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
137,816
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
107,650
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
74,086
views
views
4
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
64,954
views
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
64,829
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
59,303
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
54,484
views
views
8
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
54,182
views
views
9
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
54,095
views
views
10
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
50,685
views
views
11
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
44,857
views
views
12
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
39,703
views
views
13
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
39,140
views
views
14
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
38,014
views
views
15
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
37,536
views
views
16
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
34,849
views
views
17
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
34,650
views
views
18
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
31,897
views
views
19
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
31,432
views
views
20
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
31,346
views
views
21
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
27,725
views
views
22
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
26,198
views
views
23
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
25,777
views
views
24
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
23,535
views
views
25
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
22,552
views
views
26
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
22,073
views
views
27
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
20,211
views
views
28
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
19,255
views
views
29
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
18,951
views
views
30
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
18,554
views
views
31
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
18,136
views
views
32
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
17,935
views
views
33
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
17,872
views
views
34
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
17,582
views
views
35
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
17,186
views
views
36
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
16,143
views
views
37
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
15,595
views
views
38
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
14,025
views
views
39
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
13,703
views
views
40
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
13,666
views
views
41
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
13,395
views
views
42
Steven Hawley
American astronaut
12,631
views
views
43
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
12,121
views
views
44
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
11,762
views
views
45
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
11,708
views
views
46
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
11,679
views
views
47
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
11,660
views
views
48
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909β1966)
11,564
views
views
49
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
11,507
views
views
50
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
11,493
views
views
51
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
11,348
views
views
52
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
11,221
views
views
53
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
10,438
views
views
54
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930β2002)
10,266
views
views
55
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
10,238
views
views
56
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
10,205
views
views
57
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
9,782
views
views
58
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
9,375
views
views
59
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
9,187
views
views
60
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928β2025)
9,129
views
views
61
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
9,094
views
views
62
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
9,006
views
views
63
Benedetto Vigna
Italian physicist
8,884
views
views
64
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
8,556
views
views
65
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
8,431
views
views
66
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
8,279
views
views
67
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
8,221
views
views
68
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
8,012
views
views
69
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
7,790
views
views
70
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
7,743
views
views
71
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
7,711
views
views
72
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor and painter (1791β1872)
7,684
views
views
73
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
7,563
views
views
74
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
7,538
views
views
75
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
7,438
views
views
76
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
7,227
views
views
77
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871β1937)
7,115
views
views
78
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
7,107
views
views
79
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist (1977β2025)
6,989
views
views
80
Harold E. Puthoff
American physicist
6,881
views
views
81
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
6,804
views
views
82
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882β1935)
6,784
views
views
83
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936β2021)
6,600
views
views
84
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
6,557
views
views
85
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
6,512
views
views
86
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
6,506
views
views
87
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
6,431
views
views
88
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
6,311
views
views
89
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933β2002)
6,121
views
views
90
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
5,967
views
views
91
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
5,955
views
views
92
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
5,954
views
views
93
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
5,860
views
views
94
Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist (1926-2020)
5,847
views
views
95
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
5,789
views
views
96
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
5,744
views
views
97
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
5,692
views
views
98
Fidel Γngel Castro DΓaz-Balart
first son of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro
5,538
views
views
99
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928β2025)
5,489
views
views
100
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048β1131)
5,485
views
views
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