Trending Physicists — the 7 days to 26 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 26 October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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2,116,868
Total Views (the 7 days to 26 October 2026)
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
133,885
views
views
2
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
90,739
views
views
3
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
90,722
views
views
4
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
86,306
views
views
5
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
83,873
views
views
6
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
67,741
views
views
7
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
63,141
views
views
8
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
49,439
views
views
9
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
48,915
views
views
10
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
48,290
views
views
11
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
43,022
views
views
12
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
39,363
views
views
13
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
38,427
views
views
14
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
38,383
views
views
15
Enéas Carneiro
Brazilian politician (1938–2007)
37,178
views
views
16
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
32,932
views
views
17
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
30,243
views
views
18
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
29,451
views
views
19
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
27,622
views
views
20
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
26,509
views
views
21
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
25,667
views
views
22
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist and Nobel laureate (1933–2026)
25,038
views
views
23
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
24,916
views
views
24
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
24,743
views
views
25
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
24,644
views
views
26
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
24,131
views
views
27
Ashoke Sen
Indian physicist
22,875
views
views
28
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
21,365
views
views
29
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
21,334
views
views
30
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
20,456
views
views
31
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
20,082
views
views
32
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
20,000
views
views
33
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
19,349
views
views
34
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
19,262
views
views
35
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
17,936
views
views
36
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
17,318
views
views
37
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
16,948
views
views
38
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
16,937
views
views
39
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
16,680
views
views
40
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
16,546
views
views
41
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
16,514
views
views
42
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
16,004
views
views
43
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
15,441
views
views
44
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
15,146
views
views
45
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
14,882
views
views
46
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
14,667
views
views
47
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
14,613
views
views
48
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
14,364
views
views
49
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
13,437
views
views
50
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
13,368
views
views
51
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
13,273
views
views
52
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
12,414
views
views
53
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
12,357
views
views
54
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
12,316
views
views
55
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
12,016
views
views
56
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
12,015
views
views
57
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
11,933
views
views
58
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
11,535
views
views
59
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
11,454
views
views
60
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
11,171
views
views
61
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
10,953
views
views
62
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959–2015)
10,394
views
views
63
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
10,362
views
views
64
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
10,126
views
views
65
Tabata Amaral
Brazilian political scientist, astrophysicist, activist, politician and Federal Representative and former First Lady of Recife, Brazil
9,884
views
views
66
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
9,613
views
views
67
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
9,151
views
views
68
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
9,114
views
views
69
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
9,059
views
views
70
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
8,914
views
views
71
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
8,738
views
views
72
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
8,610
views
views
73
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
8,526
views
views
74
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
8,404
views
views
75
Harald Lesch
German physicist
8,216
views
views
76
Pramod Mahajan
Indian politician (1949-2006)
8,190
views
views
77
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
8,129
views
views
78
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
8,108
views
views
79
Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
8,103
views
views
80
Igor Kurchatov
Soviet nuclear physicist (1903-1960)
7,952
views
views
81
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
7,857
views
views
82
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
7,849
views
views
83
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
7,808
views
views
84
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
7,796
views
views
85
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
7,767
views
views
86
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
7,650
views
views
87
Robert Havemann
German chemist and dissident (1910–1982)
7,624
views
views
88
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
7,562
views
views
89
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
7,423
views
views
90
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
7,357
views
views
91
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
7,265
views
views
92
Francis Halzen
Belgian-American astrophysicist
7,241
views
views
93
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
7,126
views
views
94
Andrey Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician (1903–1987)
6,860
views
views
95
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
6,718
views
views
96
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
6,704
views
views
97
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
6,650
views
views
98
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
6,618
views
views
99
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
6,617
views
views
100
Leon Theremin
Russian inventor, physicist, and musician (1896-1993)
6,502
views
views