Trending Physicists in France — the 7 days to 24 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 24 October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Marie Curie. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
129,854
Total Views (the 7 days to 24 October 2026)
1
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
11,854
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
7,873
views
views
3
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist and Nobel laureate (1933–2026)
5,486
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
5,325
views
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
4,720
views
views
6
Sylvie Retailleau
French physicist, university president
3,148
views
views
7
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
2,938
views
views
8
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
2,661
views
views
9
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
2,634
views
views
10
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
2,394
views
views
11
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
2,385
views
views
12
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
2,384
views
views
13
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
2,293
views
views
14
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
1,969
views
views
15
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
1,834
views
views
16
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
1,819
views
views
17
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
1,765
views
views
18
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
1,743
views
views
19
Aurélien Barrau
French astrophysicist
1,713
views
views
20
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
1,657
views
views
21
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
1,621
views
views
22
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
1,583
views
views
23
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
1,493
views
views
24
André-Jacques Garnerin
inventor of the frameless parachute
1,452
views
views
25
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
1,344
views
views
26
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
1,342
views
views
27
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
1,253
views
views
28
Émilie du Châtelet
Era chiná physicist, and author (1706-1749)
1,244
views
views
29
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
1,244
views
views
30
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
1,234
views
views
31
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
1,207
views
views
32
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
1,196
views
views
33
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
1,184
views
views
34
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
1,146
views
views
35
Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
1,139
views
views
36
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
1,116
views
views
37
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
1,090
views
views
38
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
1,029
views
views
39
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
983
views
views
40
Hélène Langevin-Joliot
French physicist
983
views
views
41
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
973
views
views
42
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
969
views
views
43
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
964
views
views
44
Étienne Klein
French Philosopher of Science, epistemologist
947
views
views
45
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
909
views
views
46
Gilles Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist
890
views
views
47
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
849
views
views
48
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
846
views
views
49
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
835
views
views
50
Jean-Pierre Petit
French astrophysicist, scientist and illustrator
834
views
views
51
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
834
views
views
52
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
827
views
views
53
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
786
views
views
54
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
781
views
views
55
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
772
views
views
56
Gustave Le Bon
French psychologist (1841-1931)
754
views
views
57
Lazare Carnot
French political, engineering and mathematical figure (1753–1823)
744
views
views
58
Gaston Bachelard
French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)
732
views
views
59
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
661
views
views
60
Cécile Renault
French astrophysicist (1970-2021)
618
views
views
61
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
610
views
views
62
Alain Aspect
French physicist
609
views
views
63
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
594
views
views
64
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
594
views
views
65
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
589
views
views
66
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
588
views
views
67
Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
588
views
views
68
Anne Lauvergeon
French businesswoman
586
views
views
69
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
580
views
views
70
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
572
views
views
71
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
562
views
views
72
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
555
views
views
73
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
553
views
views
74
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)
539
views
views
75
Nicolas Carnot
French physicist (1796–1832)
536
views
views
76
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
532
views
views
77
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
519
views
views
78
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
516
views
views
79
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
507
views
views
80
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
480
views
views
81
Louis de Broglie
Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892–1987)
478
views
views
82
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
476
views
views
83
Louis Leprince-Ringuet
French physicist, telecommunications engineer, essayist and historian of science (1901–2000)
469
views
views
84
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
468
views
views
85
Hubert Reeves
Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science (1932–2023)
457
views
views
86
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
454
views
views
87
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)
452
views
views
88
Alain Geismar
French politician (born 1939)
449
views
views
89
Serge Zaka
agroclimatologist
447
views
views
90
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
444
views
views
91
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
433
views
views
92
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
428
views
views
93
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
419
views
views
94
Yves Langevin
French astrophysicist
412
views
views
95
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
411
views
views
96
Cuthbert Calculus
fictional human
404
views
views
97
Emmett Brown
fictional character from the American sci-fi film trilogy Back to the Future
393
views
views
98
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
389
views
views
99
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
383
views
views
100
Antoine Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
376
views
views