Trending Physicists this month
The 100 most-viewed physicists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein.
100
Ranked
1,115,326
Total Views (this month)
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๐จ๐ณ China
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879โ1955)
64,580
views
views
2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
45,967
views
views
3
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706โ1790)
43,032
views
views
4
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856โ1943)
42,348
views
views
5
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867โ1934)
36,745
views
views
6
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
36,724
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642โ1727)
33,289
views
views
8
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
31,929
views
views
9
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904โ1967)
29,347
views
views
10
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
22,602
views
views
11
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
21,640
views
views
12
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
21,355
views
views
13
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847โ1931)
20,164
views
views
14
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912โ1977)
19,918
views
views
15
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918โ1988)
18,882
views
views
16
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
18,305
views
views
17
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
17,244
views
views
18
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
17,128
views
views
19
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564โ1642)
16,397
views
views
20
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847โ1922)
15,848
views
views
21
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
15,022
views
views
22
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
14,562
views
views
23
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909โ1966)
14,109
views
views
24
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
13,372
views
views
25
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
12,470
views
views
26
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749โ1832)
12,401
views
views
27
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
12,225
views
views
28
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917โ2008)
11,962
views
views
29
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
11,908
views
views
30
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
11,507
views
views
31
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
10,993
views
views
32
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
10,916
views
views
33
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
10,797
views
views
34
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903โ1957)
10,495
views
views
35
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
10,072
views
views
36
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
10,070
views
views
37
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901โ1976)
9,975
views
views
38
Triveni Rao
indian-American physicist
9,784
views
views
39
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834โ1907)
9,592
views
views
40
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
9,528
views
views
41
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
9,361
views
views
42
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
8,715
views
views
43
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
7,679
views
views
44
Erwin Schrรถdinger
Austrian physicist (1887โ1961)
7,451
views
views
45
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
7,391
views
views
46
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791โ1867)
7,269
views
views
47
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646โ1716)
7,249
views
views
48
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888โ1970)
7,112
views
views
49
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885โ1962)
7,008
views
views
50
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
6,677
views
views
51
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868โ1934)
6,473
views
views
52
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
6,406
views
views
53
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920โ1958)
6,272
views
views
54
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
6,085
views
views
55
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
5,894
views
views
56
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
5,887
views
views
57
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
5,873
views
views
58
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901โ1994)
5,871
views
views
59
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858โ1947)
5,767
views
views
60
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908โ2003)
5,756
views
views
61
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
5,623
views
views
62
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831โ1879)
5,596
views
views
63
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
5,535
views
views
64
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919โ1971)
5,513
views
views
65
Enrico Fermi
ItalianโAmerican physicist (1901โ1954)
5,496
views
views
66
Mileva Mariฤ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875โ1948)
5,447
views
views
67
Gregorio Y. Zara
Filipino Engineer and Inventor (1902โ1978)
5,434
views
views
68
Kurt Gรถdel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906โ1978)
5,273
views
views
69
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859โ1906)
5,159
views
views
70
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 โ 1703)
5,051
views
views
71
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
4,787
views
views
72
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
4,725
views
views
73
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902โ1984)
4,704
views
views
74
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
4,532
views
views
75
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
4,525
views
views
76
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
4,489
views
views
77
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906โ1992)
4,471
views
views
78
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
4,460
views
views
79
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871โ1937)
4,446
views
views
80
Irรจne Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897โ1956)
4,402
views
views
81
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
4,300
views
views
82
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933โ2002)
4,270
views
views
83
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
4,088
views
views
84
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928โ2025)
4,061
views
views
85
Jesรบs Maria Tarriba
First Gentleman of Mexico
4,014
views
views
86
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
3,941
views
views
87
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632โ1723)
3,878
views
views
88
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882โ1970)
3,811
views
views
89
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
3,648
views
views
90
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
3,605
views
views
91
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824โ1907)
3,589
views
views
92
Douglas Hofstadter
American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science
3,562
views
views
93
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
3,539
views
views
94
Matthew Falder
English geophysicist; blackmailer and convicted child-sex offender
3,512
views
views
95
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Indian scientist and statistician (1893โ1972)
3,496
views
views
96
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ1131)
3,428
views
views
97
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
3,404
views
views
98
Avi Loeb
Israeli astrophysicist (1962-)
3,394
views
views
99
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844โ1906)
3,361
views
views
100
William Shockley
American physicist and inventor (1910โ1989)
3,357
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views
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