Trending Physicists this month
The 100 most-viewed physicists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Robert Oppenheimer.
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1,200,271
Total Views (this month)
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1
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904β1967)
79,692
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
67,480
views
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
45,885
views
views
4
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
40,512
views
views
5
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
38,778
views
views
6
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
36,942
views
views
7
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
34,268
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642β1727)
32,820
views
views
9
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
27,514
views
views
10
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
24,850
views
views
11
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
22,968
views
views
12
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
22,742
views
views
13
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
21,876
views
views
14
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
20,906
views
views
15
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
20,058
views
views
16
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
18,719
views
views
17
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
17,499
views
views
18
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
17,429
views
views
19
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
17,304
views
views
20
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
16,186
views
views
21
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
16,088
views
views
22
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564β1642)
15,771
views
views
23
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
14,512
views
views
24
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
14,384
views
views
25
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
13,276
views
views
26
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
13,205
views
views
27
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
12,474
views
views
28
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
12,427
views
views
29
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
12,183
views
views
30
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
12,179
views
views
31
Kurt GΓΆdel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906β1978)
11,688
views
views
32
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
11,684
views
views
33
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
10,967
views
views
34
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
10,906
views
views
35
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
10,809
views
views
36
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
10,437
views
views
37
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
10,139
views
views
38
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
10,009
views
views
39
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
9,045
views
views
40
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
8,762
views
views
41
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
8,492
views
views
42
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
8,365
views
views
43
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
8,054
views
views
44
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
8,002
views
views
45
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
7,658
views
views
46
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
7,590
views
views
47
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
7,353
views
views
48
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
7,332
views
views
49
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
7,200
views
views
50
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
7,109
views
views
51
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
7,090
views
views
52
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
7,067
views
views
53
Pavel Jungwirth
Czech chemist and academic (1966β2026)
6,985
views
views
54
Frank Oppenheimer
American particle physicist (1912β1985)
6,972
views
views
55
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
6,971
views
views
56
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909β1966)
6,818
views
views
57
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882β1970)
6,790
views
views
58
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
6,397
views
views
59
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
6,257
views
views
60
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
6,216
views
views
61
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
6,210
views
views
62
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
6,205
views
views
63
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
6,151
views
views
64
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
6,138
views
views
65
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
6,136
views
views
66
V. Balakrishnan
Indian theoretical physicist
6,132
views
views
67
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
6,008
views
views
68
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
5,858
views
views
69
Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901β1958)
5,757
views
views
70
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
5,393
views
views
71
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
5,299
views
views
72
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933β2002)
5,285
views
views
73
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
5,123
views
views
74
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
5,111
views
views
75
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
5,003
views
views
76
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
4,970
views
views
77
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
4,840
views
views
78
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
4,802
views
views
79
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928β2025)
4,801
views
views
80
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919β1971)
4,602
views
views
81
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871β1937)
4,506
views
views
82
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
4,465
views
views
83
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
4,308
views
views
84
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
4,285
views
views
85
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
4,217
views
views
86
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
4,210
views
views
87
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
4,150
views
views
88
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
4,127
views
views
89
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
4,095
views
views
90
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
4,033
views
views
91
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French engineer and physicist (1788-1827)
3,922
views
views
92
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss astronomer who posited dark matter (1898β1974)
3,892
views
views
93
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
3,885
views
views
94
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
3,853
views
views
95
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923β2020)
3,781
views
views
96
Leonard Hofstadter
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory
3,776
views
views
97
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
3,745
views
views
98
Rajesh Gopakumar
Indian physicist
3,728
views
views
99
Benjamin Franklin Miessner
Controversial American physicist and inventor (1890-1976)
3,696
views
views
100
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
3,682
views
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