Trending Physicists in France — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Marie Curie. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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664,339
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
44,250
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
31,135
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
28,429
views
views
4
Jean-Pierre Petit
French astrophysicist, scientist and illustrator
18,693
views
views
5
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
18,603
views
views
6
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
18,370
views
views
7
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
17,928
views
views
8
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
15,763
views
views
9
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
15,344
views
views
10
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
15,052
views
views
11
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
13,660
views
views
12
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
13,489
views
views
13
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
12,717
views
views
14
Jacqueline Bloch
French physicist and nanosciences specialist
12,466
views
views
15
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
12,228
views
views
16
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
11,863
views
views
17
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
11,105
views
views
18
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
10,084
views
views
19
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
9,786
views
views
20
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
8,913
views
views
21
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
8,691
views
views
22
Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
8,267
views
views
23
Aurélien Barrau
French astrophysicist
8,058
views
views
24
Émilie du Châtelet
Era chiná physicist, and author (1706-1749)
7,363
views
views
25
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
7,342
views
views
26
Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
7,287
views
views
27
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
6,681
views
views
28
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
6,664
views
views
29
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
6,618
views
views
30
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
6,327
views
views
31
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)
6,193
views
views
32
Étienne Klein
French Philosopher of Science, epistemologist
5,896
views
views
33
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
5,822
views
views
34
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
5,698
views
views
35
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
5,694
views
views
36
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
5,588
views
views
37
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
5,547
views
views
38
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
5,145
views
views
39
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
5,106
views
views
40
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
4,838
views
views
41
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
4,779
views
views
42
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
4,613
views
views
43
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
4,569
views
views
44
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
4,539
views
views
45
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
4,528
views
views
46
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
4,527
views
views
47
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
4,438
views
views
48
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
4,379
views
views
49
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
4,334
views
views
50
Sylvie Retailleau
French physicist, university president
4,099
views
views
51
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
3,970
views
views
52
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
3,956
views
views
53
Gaston Bachelard
French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)
3,939
views
views
54
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
3,910
views
views
55
Lazare Carnot
French political, engineering and mathematical figure (1753–1823)
3,649
views
views
56
Oleg Deripaska
Russian businessman
3,648
views
views
57
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
3,612
views
views
58
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
3,601
views
views
59
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
3,591
views
views
60
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
3,563
views
views
61
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
3,556
views
views
62
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
3,535
views
views
63
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
3,461
views
views
64
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
3,379
views
views
65
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
3,360
views
views
66
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
3,304
views
views
67
Yves Rocard
French physicist (1903-1992)
3,293
views
views
68
Alain Aspect
French physicist
3,190
views
views
69
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
3,185
views
views
70
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
3,179
views
views
71
Anne Lauvergeon
French businesswoman
3,169
views
views
72
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
3,167
views
views
73
Hubert Reeves
Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science (1932–2023)
3,136
views
views
74
Claude Bloch
French physicist (1923-1971)
3,135
views
views
75
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
3,124
views
views
76
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
3,117
views
views
77
Cécile Renault
French astrophysicist (1970-2021)
3,100
views
views
78
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
3,082
views
views
79
Louis de Broglie
Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892–1987)
2,986
views
views
80
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
2,983
views
views
81
Serge Zaka
agroclimatologist
2,904
views
views
82
Claude-Louis Navier
French engineer and physicist (1785–1836)
2,804
views
views
83
Emmett Brown
fictional character from the American sci-fi film trilogy Back to the Future
2,772
views
views
84
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
2,582
views
views
85
Francis Rocard
French astrophysicist
2,572
views
views
86
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
2,568
views
views
87
Valérie Masson-Delmotte
French engineer and climatologist
2,519
views
views
88
Nicolas Carnot
French physicist (1796–1832)
2,518
views
views
89
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
2,497
views
views
90
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
2,417
views
views
91
Antoine Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
2,357
views
views
92
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
2,333
views
views
93
Hélène Langevin-Joliot
French physicist
2,327
views
views
94
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
2,327
views
views
95
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
2,291
views
views
96
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
2,273
views
views
97
Gaspard Monge
French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818)
2,246
views
views
98
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French inventor (1725–1804)
2,241
views
views
99
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
2,216
views
views
100
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
2,187
views
views