Trending Physicists in China — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Chinese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Fang Daining. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
22,524
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Fang Daining
Chinese physicist
3,033
views
views
2
Gerard 't Hooft
Dutch theoretical physicist
1,149
views
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
906
views
views
4
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
878
views
views
5
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
819
views
views
6
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
733
views
views
7
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
683
views
views
8
Chen-ning Yang
Chinese physicist (1922–2025)
645
views
views
9
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
558
views
views
10
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
534
views
views
11
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
470
views
views
12
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
438
views
views
13
Jiang Mianheng
Chinese physicist and son of Jiang Zemin
405
views
views
14
Chow Hang-tung
Hong Kong activist, barrister, and politician
378
views
views
15
Peng Lifa
Chinese physicist and democracy activist
361
views
views
16
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
338
views
views
17
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
297
views
views
18
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
294
views
views
19
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
291
views
views
20
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
276
views
views
21
Charles K. Kao
Hong Kong-British-American physicist
262
views
views
22
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
251
views
views
23
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
241
views
views
24
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
236
views
views
25
Deng Zhifang
son of Deng Xiaoping
233
views
views
26
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
229
views
views
27
Winston Wong
Taiwanese businessman
225
views
views
28
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
220
views
views
29
Fang Lizhi
Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissident (1936–2012)
213
views
views
30
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
205
views
views
31
Shen Kuo
Chinese scientist and statesman (1031-1095)
195
views
views
32
Tsung-Dao Lee
Chinese-American physicist (1926–2024)
192
views
views
33
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years)
180
views
views
34
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
180
views
views
35
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
179
views
views
36
Samuel C. C. Ting
Chinese-American physicist
159
views
views
37
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
153
views
views
38
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
150
views
views
39
Yigong Shi
Chinese biologist
136
views
views
40
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
126
views
views
41
Deng Jiaxian
Chinese physicist
120
views
views
42
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
119
views
views
43
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
115
views
views
44
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
115
views
views
45
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
114
views
views
46
Jiankui He
Chinese biophysicist (1984-)
113
views
views
47
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
109
views
views
48
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
109
views
views
49
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
108
views
views
50
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
105
views
views
51
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
103
views
views
52
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
101
views
views
53
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist (1977–2025)
100
views
views
54
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
100
views
views
55
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
95
views
views
56
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
94
views
views
57
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
93
views
views
58
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
92
views
views
59
Ye Qisun
Chinese physicist
92
views
views
60
Xu Liangying
Chinese physicist (1920–2013)
91
views
views
61
Daniel C. Tsui
Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate
90
views
views
62
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
90
views
views
63
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
89
views
views
64
Zhao Jiuzhang
Chinese scientist (1907-1968)
89
views
views
65
Steven Chu
American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate (born 1948)
88
views
views
66
Xiang Zhang
Chinese physicist, mechanical engineer, and president of the University of Hong Kong
87
views
views
67
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
87
views
views
68
Joan Hinton
American physicist (1921–2010)
86
views
views
69
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
85
views
views
70
Guo Yonghuai
Aerodynamic scientist (1909-1968)
85
views
views
71
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)
85
views
views
72
Ta-You Wu
Chinese nuclear physicist (1907–2000)
84
views
views
73
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
84
views
views
74
Naoto Kan
94th Prime Minister of Japan
82
views
views
75
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
80
views
views
76
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
77
views
views
77
Louis de Broglie
Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892–1987)
76
views
views
78
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
75
views
views
79
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
75
views
views
80
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
74
views
views
81
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
72
views
views
82
Roger Y. Tsien
American biochemist (1952-2016)
70
views
views
83
Chen Zhili
Chinese politician
70
views
views
84
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
70
views
views
85
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
70
views
views
86
Yu Min
Chinese nuclear physicist
69
views
views
87
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
68
views
views
88
Chang-Lin Tien
Chinese-American physicist
68
views
views
89
An Wang
American businessman (1920–1990)
67
views
views
90
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
67
views
views
91
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
67
views
views
92
Chang Jen-Hu
Taiwanese scientist
64
views
views
93
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician (1826–1866)
63
views
views
94
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
63
views
views
95
Qian Sanqiang
Chinese nuclear physicist (1913–1992)
63
views
views
96
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
62
views
views
97
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
62
views
views
98
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
61
views
views
99
Taylor G. Wang
American materials engineer and astronaut
61
views
views
100
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
60
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