Trending Physicists this week
The 100 most-viewed physicists this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein.
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733,507
Total Views (this week)
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1
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879โ1955)
43,821
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2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
29,935
views
views
3
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706โ1790)
23,979
views
views
4
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856โ1943)
23,629
views
views
5
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867โ1934)
23,359
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
23,259
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
21,636
views
views
8
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
21,480
views
views
9
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904โ1967)
20,615
views
views
10
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912โ1977)
17,295
views
views
11
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918โ1988)
17,243
views
views
12
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
16,059
views
views
13
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
15,319
views
views
14
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
12,596
views
views
15
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
12,503
views
views
16
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847โ1931)
12,006
views
views
17
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
11,745
views
views
18
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
10,556
views
views
19
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
10,514
views
views
20
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
10,424
views
views
21
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
9,718
views
views
22
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
9,712
views
views
23
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930โ2002)
9,474
views
views
24
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
9,392
views
views
25
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917โ2008)
9,332
views
views
26
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
9,191
views
views
27
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
8,617
views
views
28
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903โ1957)
8,449
views
views
29
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
8,011
views
views
30
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
8,006
views
views
31
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
7,628
views
views
32
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
7,591
views
views
33
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847โ1922)
7,334
views
views
34
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
7,318
views
views
35
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749โ1832)
7,208
views
views
36
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901โ1976)
6,930
views
views
37
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
6,862
views
views
38
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
6,667
views
views
39
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
5,689
views
views
40
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
5,462
views
views
41
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902โ1984)
4,963
views
views
42
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791โ1867)
4,829
views
views
43
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
4,827
views
views
44
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
4,669
views
views
45
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908โ2003)
4,620
views
views
46
Erwin Schrรถdinger
Austrian physicist (1887โ1961)
4,618
views
views
47
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909โ1966)
4,607
views
views
48
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
4,547
views
views
49
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885โ1962)
4,445
views
views
50
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646โ1716)
4,346
views
views
51
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
4,327
views
views
52
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920โ1958)
4,161
views
views
53
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831โ1879)
4,079
views
views
54
Enrico Fermi
ItalianโAmerican physicist (1901โ1954)
3,985
views
views
55
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858โ1947)
3,935
views
views
56
John Stapp
American career U.S. Air Force officer, flight surgeon, physician, and biophysicist (1910โ1999)
3,903
views
views
57
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
3,793
views
views
58
Mileva Mariฤ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875โ1948)
3,750
views
views
59
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
3,689
views
views
60
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
3,640
views
views
61
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
3,640
views
views
62
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928โ2025)
3,545
views
views
63
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
3,525
views
views
64
Kurt Gรถdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
3,502
views
views
65
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
3,474
views
views
66
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888โ1970)
3,442
views
views
67
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
3,424
views
views
68
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859โ1906)
3,264
views
views
69
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
3,261
views
views
70
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868โ1934)
3,151
views
views
71
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906โ1992)
3,105
views
views
72
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
3,081
views
views
73
Leonard Susskind
American physicist
3,022
views
views
74
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
2,989
views
views
75
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871โ1937)
2,916
views
views
76
Irรจne Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897โ1956)
2,913
views
views
77
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
2,876
views
views
78
Don Lincoln
American physicist
2,776
views
views
79
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889โ1953)
2,761
views
views
80
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936โ2021)
2,704
views
views
81
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834โ1907)
2,691
views
views
82
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
2,560
views
views
83
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
2,543
views
views
84
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901โ1994)
2,527
views
views
85
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
2,510
views
views
86
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
2,498
views
views
87
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
2,476
views
views
88
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933โ2002)
2,438
views
views
89
Judith Curry
American climatologist
2,429
views
views
90
Ronald McNair
American physicist, astronaut (1950-1986)
2,414
views
views
91
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
2,368
views
views
92
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
2,356
views
views
93
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
2,353
views
views
94
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919โ1971)
2,254
views
views
95
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
2,250
views
views
96
James Watt
British engineer (1736โ1819)
2,247
views
views
97
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
2,235
views
views
98
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
2,232
views
views
99
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862โ1943)
2,229
views
views
100
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928โ2025)
2,229
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views
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