Trending Physicists in France — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, September 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Marie Curie. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
617,146
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
40,209
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
28,823
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
25,971
views
views
4
Jean-Pierre Petit
French astrophysicist, scientist and illustrator
17,508
views
views
5
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
17,444
views
views
6
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
17,357
views
views
7
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
16,631
views
views
8
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
14,862
views
views
9
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
14,111
views
views
10
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
14,027
views
views
11
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
12,777
views
views
12
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
12,514
views
views
13
Jacqueline Bloch
French physicist and nanosciences specialist
12,455
views
views
14
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
11,869
views
views
15
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
11,560
views
views
16
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
11,002
views
views
17
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
10,558
views
views
18
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
9,406
views
views
19
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
9,302
views
views
20
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
8,117
views
views
21
Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
7,885
views
views
22
Aurélien Barrau
French astrophysicist
7,520
views
views
23
Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
6,989
views
views
24
Émilie du Châtelet
Era chiná physicist, and author (1706-1749)
6,918
views
views
25
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
6,894
views
views
26
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
6,805
views
views
27
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
6,174
views
views
28
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
6,049
views
views
29
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)
6,006
views
views
30
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
5,852
views
views
31
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
5,811
views
views
32
Étienne Klein
French Philosopher of Science, epistemologist
5,616
views
views
33
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
5,541
views
views
34
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
5,352
views
views
35
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
5,126
views
views
36
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
5,071
views
views
37
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
5,019
views
views
38
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
4,809
views
views
39
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
4,778
views
views
40
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
4,587
views
views
41
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
4,393
views
views
42
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
4,369
views
views
43
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
4,355
views
views
44
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
4,239
views
views
45
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
4,208
views
views
46
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
4,185
views
views
47
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
4,114
views
views
48
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
4,111
views
views
49
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
4,097
views
views
50
Sylvie Retailleau
French physicist, university president
3,883
views
views
51
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
3,755
views
views
52
Gaston Bachelard
French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)
3,665
views
views
53
Oleg Deripaska
Russian businessman
3,601
views
views
54
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
3,496
views
views
55
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
3,415
views
views
56
Lazare Carnot
French political, engineering and mathematical figure (1753–1823)
3,412
views
views
57
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
3,404
views
views
58
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
3,402
views
views
59
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
3,311
views
views
60
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
3,301
views
views
61
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
3,255
views
views
62
Yves Rocard
French physicist (1903-1992)
3,218
views
views
63
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
3,180
views
views
64
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
3,177
views
views
65
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
3,173
views
views
66
Claude Bloch
French physicist (1923-1971)
3,132
views
views
67
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
3,117
views
views
68
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
3,077
views
views
69
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
3,061
views
views
70
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
3,000
views
views
71
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
2,960
views
views
72
Cécile Renault
French astrophysicist (1970-2021)
2,938
views
views
73
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
2,930
views
views
74
Alain Aspect
French physicist
2,925
views
views
75
Hubert Reeves
Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science (1932–2023)
2,909
views
views
76
Anne Lauvergeon
French businesswoman
2,901
views
views
77
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
2,854
views
views
78
Claude-Louis Navier
French engineer and physicist (1785–1836)
2,770
views
views
79
Louis de Broglie
Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892–1987)
2,736
views
views
80
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
2,707
views
views
81
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
2,670
views
views
82
Emmett Brown
fictional character from the American sci-fi film trilogy Back to the Future
2,656
views
views
83
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
2,515
views
views
84
Valérie Masson-Delmotte
French engineer and climatologist
2,457
views
views
85
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
2,447
views
views
86
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
2,392
views
views
87
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
2,361
views
views
88
Nicolas Carnot
French physicist (1796–1832)
2,345
views
views
89
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
2,222
views
views
90
Francis Rocard
French astrophysicist
2,218
views
views
91
Antoine Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
2,209
views
views
92
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
2,181
views
views
93
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
2,143
views
views
94
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
2,137
views
views
95
Gaspard Monge
French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818)
2,121
views
views
96
Serge Zaka
agroclimatologist
2,018
views
views
97
Gustave Le Bon
French psychologist (1841-1931)
2,014
views
views
98
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
2,014
views
views
99
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
1,999
views
views
100
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)
1,986
views
views