Trending Physicists in Germany — September 2026

1

Oskar Lafontaine

German politician

63,778
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2

Angela Merkel

chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)

📚 133 citations 📰 23 stories · 3 sources

60,128
views

3

Albert Einstein

German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)

📚 92 citations 📰 31 stories · 4 sources

41,897
views

4

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

📚 75 citations

35,346
views

5

Nikola Tesla

Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)

📚 38 citations

30,063
views

6

Reiner Haseloff

German politician

📚 11 citations

26,209
views

7

Marie Curie

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

📚 72 citations 📰 9 stories · 4 sources

25,528
views

8

Stephen Hawking

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

📚 102 citations 📰 16 stories · 5 sources

21,676
views

9

J. Robert Oppenheimer

American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)

📚 57 citations

21,651
views

10

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

📚 55 citations

20,728
views

11

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher (1724-1804)

📚 38 citations

20,401
views

12

Lise Meitner

Austrian-Swedish physicist

📚 38 citations

18,124
views

13

Alexander von Humboldt

Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)

📚 76 citations

16,085
views

14

Wernher von Braun

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

📚 46 citations

15,524
views

15

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

📚 70 citations

13,875
views

16

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)

📚 44 citations

13,241
views

17

Werner Heisenberg

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

📚 43 citations

12,771
views

18

Galileo Galilei

Italian polymath (1564–1642)

📚 52 citations

12,649
views

19

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)

📚 54 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

12,130
views

20

Nicolaus Copernicus

Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)

📚 43 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

11,908
views

21

Manuel Hobiger

11,430
views

22

Bernhard Riemann

German mathematician (1826–1866)

📚 34 citations

10,674
views

23

Harald Lesch

German physicist

📚 31 citations

9,654
views

24

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)

📚 61 citations

9,370
views

25

Sibylle Anderl

German astrophysicist

8,905
views

26

Benjamin Franklin

American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

📚 57 citations 📰 38 stories · 5 sources

8,019
views

27

Johannes Kepler

German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)

📚 45 citations

7,530
views

28

Richard Feynman

American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)

📚 49 citations

7,202
views

29

Karsten Wildberger

German manager and politician (CDU), Federal Minister

📚 4 citations

7,077
views

30

Thomas Edison

American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)

📚 47 citations 📰 16 stories · 3 sources

6,999
views

31

Mojib Latif

German meteorologist

📚 16 citations

6,831
views

32

Archimedes

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

📚 32 citations

6,687
views

33

Brian May

British musician (born 1947)

📚 41 citations

6,637
views

34

René Descartes

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

📚 48 citations

6,393
views

35

Max Planck

German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)

📚 46 citations 📰 8 stories · 3 sources

6,182
views

36

Avicenna

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

📚 44 citations

5,911
views

37

Leonhard Euler

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

📚 50 citations

5,861
views

38

Valery Legasov

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

📚 8 citations

5,756
views

39

Ranga Yogeshwar

Luxembourgish television presenter and author

📚 17 citations

5,597
views

40

Otto Hahn

German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)

📚 34 citations 📰 5 stories · 3 sources

5,553
views

41

Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian physicist (1887–1961)

📚 30 citations

5,541
views

42

Wilhelm Röntgen

German physicist (1845–1923)

📚 40 citations

5,537
views

43

Fritz Haber

German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)

📚 33 citations

5,359
views

44

John von Neumann

Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)

📚 37 citations

5,178
views

45

Mileva Marić

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

📚 21 citations

5,167
views

46

Niels Bohr

Danish physicist (1885–1962)

📚 74 citations

5,026
views

47

Metin Tolan

Turkish-German physicist (born 1965)

4,655
views

48

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist (born 1955)

📚 81 citations

4,577
views

49

Kurt Gödel

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

📚 34 citations

4,540
views

50

Alfred Wegener

German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)

📚 28 citations

4,059
views

51

Enrico Fermi

Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)

📚 47 citations

4,053
views

52

Edward Teller

Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)

📚 35 citations

3,999
views

53

Rosalind Franklin

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

📚 26 citations

3,985
views

54

Claudia Sheinbaum

president of Mexico since 2024

📚 29 citations 📰 121 stories · 25 sources

3,952
views

55

Sabine Hossenfelder

German theoretical physicist

📚 26 citations

3,516
views

56

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

German physicist (1912–2007)

📚 30 citations

3,495
views

57

Blaise Pascal

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

📚 46 citations 📰 6 stories · 4 sources

3,452
views

58

Emmy Noether

German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)

📚 31 citations

3,435
views

59

Alexander Gerst

German ESA astronaut and geophysicist

📚 15 citations

3,391
views

60

Heraclitus

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

📚 21 citations

3,331
views

61

Carl Sagan

American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)

📚 42 citations

3,302
views

62

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862–1943)

📚 42 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

3,121
views

63

Arthur C. Clarke

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

📚 76 citations

3,013
views

64

Thales

ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician

📚 40 citations 📰 17 stories · 6 sources

2,965
views

65

Manfred von Ardenne

German researcher and applied physicist (1907-1997)

📚 15 citations

2,817
views

66

Otto von Guericke

German scientist, inventor, and politician (1602-1686)

📚 24 citations

2,816
views

67

Roland Busch

German business executive and physicist

📚 9 citations

2,732
views

68

Gerd Ganteför

German experimental physicist

2,724
views

69

Robert Havemann

German chemist and dissident (1910–1982)

📚 16 citations

2,701
views

70

Alessandro Volta

Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)

📚 30 citations

2,694
views

71

Jára Cimrman

Czech fictional character of a national giant

📚 7 citations

2,690
views

72

Max Born

German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)

📚 48 citations

2,669
views

73

Klaus Fuchs

German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)

📚 17 citations

2,650
views

74

Boris Nemtsov

Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959–2015)

📚 20 citations

2,613
views

75

Alexander Graham Bell

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

📚 36 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

2,550
views

76

Laura Bassi

Italian physicist (1711-1778)

📚 19 citations

2,532
views

77

Katherine Johnson

African-American mathematician

📚 28 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

2,527
views

78

Heinrich Hertz

German physicist (1857–1894)

📚 31 citations

2,490
views

79

Lavinia Heisenberg

German physicist and professor

2,429
views

80

Michael Faraday

British scientist (1791–1867)

📚 49 citations

2,422
views

81

Edzard Reuter

German businessman (1928–2024)

📚 13 citations

2,411
views

82

Neil deGrasse Tyson

American astrophysicist and science communicator

📚 32 citations

2,402
views

83

Anton Zeilinger

Austrian quantum physicist (born 1945)

📚 30 citations

2,387
views

84

Sheldon Cooper

fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon

📚 6 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

2,360
views

85

Linus Pauling

American scientist (1901–1994)

📚 70 citations

2,330
views

86

Hermann von Helmholtz

German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894)

📚 42 citations

2,325
views

87

Axel Stoll

German geophysicist and conspiracy theorist

2,317
views

88

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

📚 38 citations

2,310
views

89

James Watt

British engineer (1736–1819)

📚 37 citations

2,301
views

90

Ludwig Boltzmann

Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)

📚 29 citations

2,229
views

91

Irène Joliot-Curie

French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)

📚 40 citations

2,224
views

92

Joachim Bublath

German television presenter and author

2,206
views

93

Grace Hopper

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

📚 39 citations

2,206
views

94

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

German scientist and satirist (1742-1799)

📚 25 citations

2,183
views

95

Gennady Zyuganov

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

📚 13 citations 📰 7 stories · 4 sources

2,090
views

96

Brian Cox

English physicist and musician

📚 26 citations 📰 14 stories · 5 sources

2,069
views

97

Vince Ebert

German author, news presenter and physicist

📚 7 citations

2,040
views

98

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist (1834–1907)

📚 34 citations

2,032
views

99

Carl Zeiss

German optical physicist (1816–1888)

📚 14 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

2,025
views

100

Hans Albert Einstein

Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)

📚 18 citations

2,014
views