Trending Physicists in Brazil — September 2026

1

Enéas Carneiro

Brazilian politician (1938–2007)

📚 2 citations

25,474
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2

Tabata Amaral

Brazilian political scientist, astrophysicist, activist, politician and Federal Representative and former First Lady of Recife, Brazil

📚 6 citations

19,205
views

3

Albert Einstein

German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)

📚 92 citations 📰 37 stories · 4 sources

13,204
views

4

Marie Curie

Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)

📚 72 citations 📰 8 stories · 3 sources

12,893
views

5

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

📚 55 citations

11,501
views

6

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

📚 70 citations

8,971
views

7

Nikola Tesla

Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)

📚 38 citations

8,943
views

8

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)

📚 54 citations 📰 7 stories · 2 sources

8,769
views

9

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

📚 102 citations 📰 18 stories · 6 sources

8,535
views

10

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher (1724-1804)

📚 38 citations

6,465
views

11

Galileo Galilei

Italian polymath (1564–1642)

📚 52 citations

6,333
views

12

René Descartes

French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)

📚 48 citations

5,434
views

13

J. Robert Oppenheimer

American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)

📚 57 citations

5,018
views

14

Euclides da Cunha

Brazilian writer (1866–1909)

📚 16 citations

4,466
views

15

Thomas Edison

American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)

📚 47 citations 📰 10 stories · 3 sources

4,215
views

16

Benjamin Franklin

American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

📚 57 citations 📰 35 stories · 5 sources

4,032
views

17

Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal

Portuguese noble and diplomat (1699–1782)

📚 17 citations

3,763
views

18

Angela Merkel

chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)

📚 133 citations 📰 35 stories · 7 sources

3,656
views

19

Elika Takimoto

Brazilian physicist and politician

3,612
views

20

Thales

ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician

📚 40 citations 📰 8 stories · 4 sources

3,503
views

21

Claudia Sheinbaum

president of Mexico since 2024

📚 29 citations 📰 260 stories · 45 sources

3,448
views

22

Nicolaus Copernicus

Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)

📚 43 citations

3,383
views

23

Katherine Johnson

African-American mathematician

📚 28 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

3,259
views

24

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)

📚 75 citations

2,942
views

25

Archimedes

Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)

📚 32 citations

2,923
views

26

Carl Sagan

American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)

📚 42 citations

2,902
views

27

Antoine Lavoisier

French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)

📚 37 citations

2,892
views

28

Sonia Guimarães

Brazilian physicist

2,777
views

29

Richard Feynman

American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)

📚 49 citations

2,396
views

30

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)

📚 44 citations

2,207
views

31

Leonhard Euler

Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)

📚 50 citations

2,054
views

32

Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)

📚 46 citations 📰 2 stories · 2 sources

1,965
views

33

Sheldon Cooper

fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon

📚 6 citations 📰 8 stories · 4 sources

1,917
views

34

John von Neumann

Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)

📚 37 citations

1,868
views

35

Alexander Graham Bell

Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)

📚 36 citations

1,849
views

36

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)

📚 61 citations

1,831
views

37

Rosalind Franklin

British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)

📚 26 citations

1,775
views

38

Ricardo Galvão

Brazilian physicist, engineer and Federal Deputy of Brazil since 2025 (born 1947)

📚 11 citations

1,736
views

39

Lex Luthor

fictional character in DC Comics

📚 5 citations

1,719
views

40

Wernher von Braun

German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)

📚 46 citations

1,660
views

41

Michael Faraday

British scientist (1791–1867)

📚 49 citations

1,648
views

42

Werner Heisenberg

German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)

📚 43 citations

1,627
views

43

César Lattes

Brazilian physicist, researcher and university teacher (1924–2005)

📚 5 citations

1,589
views

44

Heraclitus

Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)

📚 21 citations

1,458
views

45

Brian May

British musician (born 1947)

📚 41 citations

1,443
views

46

Arthur C. Clarke

British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)

📚 76 citations

1,409
views

47

Johannes Kepler

German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)

📚 45 citations

1,390
views

48

Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian physicist (1887–1961)

📚 30 citations

1,299
views

49

Niels Bohr

Danish physicist (1885–1962)

📚 74 citations

1,269
views

50

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist (born 1955)

📚 81 citations

1,188
views

51

Luiz Carlos Molion

Brazilian climate denier

1,172
views

52

Mileva Marić

Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)

📚 21 citations

1,162
views

53

Alexander von Humboldt

Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)

📚 76 citations

1,152
views

54

Valery Legasov

Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)

📚 8 citations

1,149
views

55

Max Planck

German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)

📚 46 citations 📰 8 stories · 3 sources

1,127
views

56

John Dalton

British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)

📚 26 citations

1,088
views

57

Neil deGrasse Tyson

American astrophysicist and science communicator

📚 32 citations

1,030
views

58

Pierre Curie

French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)

📚 49 citations

1,020
views

59

Avicenna

Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)

📚 44 citations

1,017
views

60

Hans Albert Einstein

Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)

📚 18 citations

1,011
views

61

Lúcio Lara

Angolan politician (1929-2016)

📚 4 citations

999
views

62

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist (1834–1907)

📚 34 citations

966
views

63

Marcelo Gleiser

Brazilian physicist

📚 10 citations

965
views

64

Constantino Tsallis

Brazilian physicist

📚 6 citations

931
views

65

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)

📚 28 citations

930
views

66

Landell de Moura

Brazilian priest and radio pioneer (1861-1928)

📚 3 citations

927
views

67

Georges Lemaître

Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)

914
views

68

Carlos Fiolhais

Portuguese scientist

911
views

69

Robert Hooke

English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)

📚 48 citations

858
views

70

Kurt Gödel

Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)

📚 34 citations

856
views

71

James Clerk Maxwell

Scottish physicist (1831–1879)

📚 48 citations

841
views

72

Roger Penrose

English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher

📚 42 citations

840
views

73

Ernest Rutherford

New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)

📚 46 citations

822
views

74

Marcia Barbosa

Brazilian physicist

📚 7 citations

781
views

75

Anaximander

pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

📚 21 citations

759
views

76

Guglielmo Marconi

Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)

📚 45 citations

739
views

77

Mae Jemison

American doctor and NASA astronaut

📚 26 citations

727
views

78

Irène Joliot-Curie

French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)

📚 40 citations

721
views

79

Sasquatch

fictional character in Marvel Comics

📚 1 citation

719
views

80

Thomas Kuhn

American historian, physicist and philosopher (1922 – 1996)

📚 27 citations

699
views

81

Linus Pauling

American scientist (1901–1994)

📚 70 citations

696
views

82

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)

📚 40 citations

679
views

83

Franz Boas

German-American anthropologist

📚 27 citations 📰 2 stories · 2 sources

676
views

84

Enrico Fermi

Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)

📚 47 citations

676
views

85

Wilhelm Röntgen

German physicist (1845–1923)

📚 40 citations

670
views

86

Grace Hopper

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

📚 39 citations

667
views

87

Auguste Piccard

Swiss physicist (1884–1962)

📚 21 citations

657
views

88

Lise Meitner

Austrian-Swedish physicist

📚 38 citations

651
views

89

William of Ockham

English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)

📚 25 citations

638
views

90

Henri Poincaré

French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)

📚 49 citations

619
views

91

Alessandro Volta

Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)

📚 30 citations

609
views

92

Emmanuel Swedenborg

Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)

📚 33 citations

598
views

93

Charles Sanders Peirce

American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)

📚 32 citations

581
views

94

James Watt

British engineer (1736–1819)

📚 37 citations

534
views

95

Gaston Bachelard

French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)

📚 39 citations

531
views

96

Joseph John Thomson

British physicist (1856-1940)

📚 44 citations

503
views

97

Mário Schenberg

Brazilian physicist (1914–1990)

📚 9 citations

501
views

98

Duília de Mello

Brazilian astronomer (1963-)

📚 3 citations

490
views

99

Anaxagoras

5th-century BC Greek philosopher

📚 15 citations

485
views

100

Emmy Noether

German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)

📚 31 citations

473
views