Trending Physicists this week
The 100 most-viewed physicists this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Robert Oppenheimer.
100
Ranked
686,644
Total Views (this week)
Country
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๐ช๐ธ Spain
๐ง๐ท Brazil
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๐จ๐ณ China
1
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904โ1967)
44,548
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879โ1955)
41,288
views
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856โ1943)
26,878
views
views
4
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
24,889
views
views
5
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706โ1790)
21,236
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
20,627
views
views
7
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867โ1934)
20,062
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642โ1727)
19,474
views
views
9
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
16,316
views
views
10
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918โ1988)
13,934
views
views
11
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
13,921
views
views
12
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
12,789
views
views
13
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912โ1977)
12,523
views
views
14
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908โ2003)
12,492
views
views
15
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847โ1931)
12,034
views
views
16
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
11,848
views
views
17
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901โ1976)
10,853
views
views
18
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
10,233
views
views
19
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564โ1642)
9,553
views
views
20
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
9,506
views
views
21
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
8,692
views
views
22
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
8,492
views
views
23
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847โ1922)
8,161
views
views
24
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
7,760
views
views
25
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749โ1832)
7,651
views
views
26
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917โ2008)
7,645
views
views
27
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
7,356
views
views
28
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
7,349
views
views
29
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
7,178
views
views
30
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
6,803
views
views
31
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885โ1962)
6,657
views
views
32
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
6,504
views
views
33
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903โ1957)
6,351
views
views
34
Leรณ Szilรกrd
Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor (1898โ1964)
6,269
views
views
35
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
5,911
views
views
36
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
5,781
views
views
37
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
5,449
views
views
38
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
5,443
views
views
39
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791โ1867)
4,694
views
views
40
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
4,649
views
views
41
Mileva Mariฤ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875โ1948)
4,639
views
views
42
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
4,498
views
views
43
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
4,380
views
views
44
Enrico Fermi
ItalianโAmerican physicist (1901โ1954)
4,372
views
views
45
Kurt Gรถdel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906โ1978)
4,308
views
views
46
Erwin Schrรถdinger
Austrian physicist (1887โ1961)
4,292
views
views
47
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
4,251
views
views
48
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
4,127
views
views
49
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882โ1970)
4,094
views
views
50
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868โ1934)
4,024
views
views
51
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
3,992
views
views
52
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909โ1966)
3,965
views
views
53
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
3,951
views
views
54
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888โ1970)
3,936
views
views
55
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646โ1716)
3,883
views
views
56
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920โ1958)
3,825
views
views
57
Frank Oppenheimer
American particle physicist (1912โ1985)
3,768
views
views
58
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
3,755
views
views
59
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
3,430
views
views
60
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831โ1879)
3,384
views
views
61
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906โ1992)
3,381
views
views
62
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
3,378
views
views
63
Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901โ1958)
3,257
views
views
64
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
3,229
views
views
65
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
3,173
views
views
66
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
3,146
views
views
67
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
3,033
views
views
68
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858โ1947)
3,029
views
views
69
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902โ1984)
2,948
views
views
70
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
2,930
views
views
71
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
2,915
views
views
72
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933โ2002)
2,878
views
views
73
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
2,870
views
views
74
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
2,849
views
views
75
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871โ1937)
2,836
views
views
76
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
2,756
views
views
77
Irรจne Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897โ1956)
2,721
views
views
78
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928โ2025)
2,666
views
views
79
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859โ1906)
2,631
views
views
80
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919โ1971)
2,585
views
views
81
Hillary Diane Andales
Filipino astronomer and astrophysicist
2,560
views
views
82
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
2,549
views
views
83
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
2,517
views
views
84
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
2,514
views
views
85
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901โ1994)
2,492
views
views
86
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
2,457
views
views
87
V. Balakrishnan
Indian theoretical physicist
2,457
views
views
88
Jane Foster
fictional character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
2,451
views
views
89
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
2,439
views
views
90
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834โ1907)
2,381
views
views
91
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862โ1943)
2,338
views
views
92
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923โ2020)
2,332
views
views
93
Leonard Hofstadter
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory
2,263
views
views
94
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
2,216
views
views
95
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
2,178
views
views
96
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
2,167
views
views
97
James Watt
British engineer (1736โ1819)
2,153
views
views
98
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
2,128
views
views
99
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 โ 1703)
2,100
views
views
100
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928โ2025)
2,068
views
views
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