Trending Physicists in Germany this year
The 100 most-viewed physicists this year on Wikipedia (Germany). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Angela Merkel.
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Ranked
66,521
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
6,975
views
views
2
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
5,846
views
views
3
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
3,377
views
views
4
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
2,532
views
views
5
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
1,853
views
views
6
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
1,812
views
views
7
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
1,782
views
views
8
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
1,771
views
views
9
Manuel Hobiger
1,488
views
views
10
Alexander Gerst
German ESA astronaut and geophysicist
1,482
views
views
11
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
1,414
views
views
12
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
1,371
views
views
13
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
1,311
views
views
14
Harald Lesch
German physicist
1,256
views
views
15
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
1,046
views
views
16
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
874
views
views
17
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
836
views
views
18
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
822
views
views
19
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
810
views
views
20
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
775
views
views
21
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
766
views
views
22
Johanna Budwig
German biochemist (1908β2003)
757
views
views
23
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
752
views
views
24
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
692
views
views
25
Roland Wiesendanger
German physicist
682
views
views
26
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
672
views
views
27
Karsten Wildberger
German manager and politician (CDU), Federal Minister
620
views
views
28
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
608
views
views
29
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
604
views
views
30
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
590
views
views
31
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
584
views
views
32
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
545
views
views
33
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
537
views
views
34
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
513
views
views
35
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
506
views
views
36
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
504
views
views
37
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
475
views
views
38
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
467
views
views
39
Wilhelm RΓΆntgen
German physicist (1845β1923)
464
views
views
40
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
454
views
views
41
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
419
views
views
42
Gerd GantefΓΆr
German experimental physicist
410
views
views
43
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
392
views
views
44
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
384
views
views
45
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
377
views
views
46
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
369
views
views
47
Jeremy Hansen
Canadian astronaut (born 1976)
365
views
views
48
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
365
views
views
49
Reiner Haseloff
German politician
359
views
views
50
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
352
views
views
51
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
340
views
views
52
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882β1935)
334
views
views
53
Ulrich Walter
German astronaut
330
views
views
54
Metin Tolan
Turkish-German physicist (born 1965)
325
views
views
55
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
320
views
views
56
Ranga Yogeshwar
Luxembourgish television presenter and author
318
views
views
57
Daniel Swarovski
Austrian crystal glass industrialist, founder of D. Swarovski KG company (1862β1956)
310
views
views
58
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
307
views
views
59
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
299
views
views
60
Tanja Kneiske
German physicist and engineer
299
views
views
61
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880β1930)
289
views
views
62
Kurt H. Debus
rocket engineer and scientist (1908β1983)
278
views
views
63
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
270
views
views
64
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
255
views
views
65
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
249
views
views
66
Carl Friedrich von WeizsΓ€cker
German physicist (1912β2007)
249
views
views
67
Hermann von Helmholtz
German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894)
239
views
views
68
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
231
views
views
69
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
230
views
views
70
Reinhard Genzel
German astronomer
219
views
views
71
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
217
views
views
72
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
217
views
views
73
Hermann Oberth
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)
216
views
views
74
Mojib Latif
German meteorologist
209
views
views
75
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
208
views
views
76
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
207
views
views
77
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900β1958)
207
views
views
78
Manfred von Ardenne
German researcher and applied physicist (1907-1997)
205
views
views
79
Anton Zeilinger
Austrian quantum physicist (born 1945)
204
views
views
80
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
203
views
views
81
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
203
views
views
82
Otto von Guericke
German scientist, inventor, and politician (1602-1686)
199
views
views
83
Ernst Abbe
German physicist (1840-1905)
198
views
views
84
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
German scientist and satirist (1742-1799)
198
views
views
85
Roland Busch
German business executive and physicist
196
views
views
86
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
194
views
views
87
Heinz Haber
German physicist (1913β1990)
193
views
views
88
Sebastian Pflugbeil
German politician and physicist
193
views
views
89
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
188
views
views
90
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
188
views
views
91
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
185
views
views
92
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
183
views
views
93
Javier Solana
Spanish politician
181
views
views
94
Ulf Merbold
German astronaut
179
views
views
95
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
178
views
views
96
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
176
views
views
97
Axel Stoll
German geophysicist and conspiracy theorist
174
views
views
98
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
174
views
views
99
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
171
views
views
100
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
169
views
views
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