Trending Physicists this month
The 100 most-viewed physicists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein.
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546,289
Total Views (this month)
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1
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
33,091
views
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2
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
23,027
views
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
20,769
views
views
4
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
19,840
views
views
5
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
18,803
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
18,011
views
views
7
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
16,903
views
views
8
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
16,448
views
views
9
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
15,926
views
views
10
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
14,871
views
views
11
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
14,385
views
views
12
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
13,472
views
views
13
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
11,352
views
views
14
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
9,496
views
views
15
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
9,453
views
views
16
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
9,191
views
views
17
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
9,078
views
views
18
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
9,018
views
views
19
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
7,949
views
views
20
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
7,888
views
views
21
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
7,272
views
views
22
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
7,123
views
views
23
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
6,816
views
views
24
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
6,748
views
views
25
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
6,478
views
views
26
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
6,145
views
views
27
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
6,043
views
views
28
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
5,401
views
views
29
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
5,286
views
views
30
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
5,272
views
views
31
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
5,269
views
views
32
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
4,870
views
views
33
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
4,863
views
views
34
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
4,574
views
views
35
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
4,438
views
views
36
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
4,294
views
views
37
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist (1977β2025)
4,243
views
views
38
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
4,146
views
views
39
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
3,895
views
views
40
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor and painter (1791β1872)
3,845
views
views
41
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
3,765
views
views
42
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
3,724
views
views
43
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
3,612
views
views
44
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
3,536
views
views
45
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
3,452
views
views
46
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
3,440
views
views
47
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
3,386
views
views
48
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
3,277
views
views
49
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
3,205
views
views
50
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928β2025)
3,093
views
views
51
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
2,977
views
views
52
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
2,956
views
views
53
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
2,912
views
views
54
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
2,899
views
views
55
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
2,716
views
views
56
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909β1966)
2,666
views
views
57
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
2,652
views
views
58
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
2,521
views
views
59
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
2,502
views
views
60
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
2,475
views
views
61
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
2,465
views
views
62
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
2,457
views
views
63
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
2,323
views
views
64
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
2,314
views
views
65
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
2,275
views
views
66
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
2,253
views
views
67
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
2,243
views
views
68
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
2,197
views
views
69
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
2,159
views
views
70
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871β1937)
2,130
views
views
71
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
2,123
views
views
72
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
2,103
views
views
73
Stephen C. Meyer
American Intelligent design advocate
2,100
views
views
74
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
2,098
views
views
75
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
2,057
views
views
76
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
2,035
views
views
77
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
2,030
views
views
78
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
1,977
views
views
79
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
1,961
views
views
80
Hertha Ayrton
English electrical engineer (1854β1923)
1,942
views
views
81
Nicole Hernandez Hammer
American climate researcher
1,917
views
views
82
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
1,917
views
views
83
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
1,898
views
views
84
Hero of Alexandria
ancient Greek mathematician and engineer
1,897
views
views
85
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
1,886
views
views
86
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
1,869
views
views
87
Wilhelm RΓΆntgen
German physicist (1845β1923)
1,800
views
views
88
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921β1989)
1,759
views
views
89
Ning Li
American physicist
1,750
views
views
90
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048β1131)
1,735
views
views
91
Johanna Budwig
German biochemist (1908β2003)
1,727
views
views
92
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928β2025)
1,718
views
views
93
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
1,700
views
views
94
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
1,691
views
views
95
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933β2002)
1,690
views
views
96
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
1,687
views
views
97
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959β2015)
1,680
views
views
98
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
1,667
views
views
99
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
1,660
views
views
100
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882β1935)
1,641
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