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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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1
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879โ€“1955)
๐Ÿ“š 92 citations Person
43,821
views
2
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ€“2018)
๐Ÿ“š 102 citations Person
29,935
views
3
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706โ€“1790)
๐Ÿ“š 57 citations Person
23,979
views
4
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856โ€“1943)
๐Ÿ“š 38 citations Person
23,629
views
5
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867โ€“1934)
๐Ÿ“š 72 citations Person
23,359
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โˆ’1519)
๐Ÿ“š 55 citations Person
23,259
views
7
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
๐Ÿ“š 54 citations Person
21,636
views
8
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
๐Ÿ“š 32 citations Person
21,480
views
9
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904โ€“1967)
๐Ÿ“š 57 citations Person
20,615
views
10
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912โ€“1977)
๐Ÿ“š 46 citations Person
17,295
views
11
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918โ€“1988)
๐Ÿ“š 49 citations Person
17,243
views
12
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
๐Ÿ“š 41 citations Person
16,059
views
13
Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
๐Ÿ“š 29 citations Person
15,319
views
14
Aristotle
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
๐Ÿ“š 70 citations Person
12,596
views
15
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
๐Ÿ“š 26 citations Person
12,503
views
16
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847โ€“1931)
๐Ÿ“š 47 citations Person
12,006
views
17
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ€“1996)
๐Ÿ“š 42 citations Person
11,745
views
18
Sally Ride
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ€“2012)
๐Ÿ“š 19 citations Person
10,556
views
19
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
๐Ÿ“š 52 citations Person
10,514
views
20
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
๐Ÿ“š 1 citation Person
10,424
views
21
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
๐Ÿ“š 6 citations Person
9,718
views
22
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
๐Ÿ“š 32 citations Person
9,712
views
23
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930โ€“2002)
๐Ÿ“š 26 citations Person
9,474
views
24
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
๐Ÿ“š 38 citations Person
9,392
views
25
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917โ€“2008)
๐Ÿ“š 76 citations Person
9,332
views
26
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
๐Ÿ“š 28 citations Person
9,191
views
27
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ€“1783)
๐Ÿ“š 50 citations Person
8,617
views
28
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903โ€“1957)
๐Ÿ“š 37 citations Person
8,449
views
29
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
๐Ÿ“š 2 citations Person
8,011
views
30
Renรฉ Descartes
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ€“1650)
๐Ÿ“š 48 citations Person
8,006
views
31
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ€“ c. 212 BC)
๐Ÿ“š 32 citations Person
7,628
views
32
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
๐Ÿ“š 133 citations Person
7,591
views
33
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847โ€“1922)
๐Ÿ“š 36 citations Person
7,334
views
34
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
๐Ÿ“š 8 citations Person
7,318
views
35
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749โ€“1832)
๐Ÿ“š 75 citations Person
7,208
views
36
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901โ€“1976)
๐Ÿ“š 43 citations Person
6,930
views
37
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
๐Ÿ“š 43 citations Person
6,862
views
38
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
๐Ÿ“š 81 citations Person
6,667
views
39
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
๐Ÿ“š 42 citations Person
5,689
views
40
Avicenna
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ€“1037)
๐Ÿ“š 44 citations Person
5,462
views
41
Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902โ€“1984)
๐Ÿ“š 42 citations Person
4,963
views
42
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791โ€“1867)
๐Ÿ“š 49 citations Person
4,829
views
43
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ€“1855)
๐Ÿ“š 44 citations Person
4,827
views
44
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
๐Ÿ“š 5 citations Person
4,669
views
45
Edward Teller
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908โ€“2003)
๐Ÿ“š 35 citations Person
4,620
views
46
Erwin Schrรถdinger
Erwin Schrรถdinger
Austrian physicist (1887โ€“1961)
๐Ÿ“š 30 citations Person
4,618
views
47
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909โ€“1966)
๐Ÿ“š 14 citations Person
4,607
views
48
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
๐Ÿ“š 46 citations Person
4,547
views
49
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885โ€“1962)
๐Ÿ“š 74 citations Person
4,445
views
50
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646โ€“1716)
๐Ÿ“š 61 citations Person
4,346
views
51
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
Person
4,327
views
52
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920โ€“1958)
๐Ÿ“š 26 citations Person
4,161
views
53
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831โ€“1879)
๐Ÿ“š 48 citations Person
4,079
views
54
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italianโ€“American physicist (1901โ€“1954)
๐Ÿ“š 47 citations Person
3,985
views
55
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858โ€“1947)
๐Ÿ“š 46 citations Person
3,935
views
56
John Stapp
John Stapp
American career U.S. Air Force officer, flight surgeon, physician, and biophysicist (1910โ€“1999)
๐Ÿ“š 9 citations Person
3,903
views
57
Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
๐Ÿ“š 21 citations Person
3,793
views
58
Mileva Mariฤ‡
Mileva Mariฤ‡
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875โ€“1948)
๐Ÿ“š 21 citations Person
3,750
views
59
Hans Albert Einstein
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
๐Ÿ“š 18 citations Person
3,689
views
60
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
๐Ÿ“š 21 citations Person
3,640
views
61
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
Person
3,640
views
62
Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928โ€“2025)
๐Ÿ“š 18 citations Person
3,545
views
63
Rajnath Singh
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
๐Ÿ“š 19 citations Person
3,525
views
64
Kurt Gรถdel
Kurt Gรถdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
๐Ÿ“š 34 citations Person
3,502
views
65
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
๐Ÿ“š 45 citations Person
3,474
views
66
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888โ€“1970)
๐Ÿ“š 28 citations Person
3,442
views
67
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
๐Ÿ“š 26 citations Person
3,424
views
68
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859โ€“1906)
๐Ÿ“š 49 citations Person
3,264
views
69
Louis Slotin
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
๐Ÿ“š 5 citations Person
3,261
views
70
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868โ€“1934)
๐Ÿ“š 33 citations Person
3,151
views
71
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906โ€“1992)
๐Ÿ“š 39 citations Person
3,105
views
72
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ€“1630)
๐Ÿ“š 45 citations Person
3,081
views
73
Leonard Susskind
American physicist
๐Ÿ“š 19 citations Person
3,022
views
74
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
๐Ÿ“š 17 citations Person
2,989
views
75
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871โ€“1937)
๐Ÿ“š 46 citations Person
2,916
views
76
Irรจne Joliot-Curie
Irรจne Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897โ€“1956)
๐Ÿ“š 40 citations Person
2,913
views
77
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
๐Ÿ“š 46 citations Person
2,876
views
78
Don Lincoln
American physicist
๐Ÿ“š 14 citations Person
2,776
views
79
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889โ€“1953)
๐Ÿ“š 29 citations Person
2,761
views
80
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936โ€“2021)
๐Ÿ“š 8 citations Person
2,704
views
81
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834โ€“1907)
๐Ÿ“š 34 citations Person
2,691
views
82
Edward Witten
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
๐Ÿ“š 48 citations Person
2,560
views
83
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
๐Ÿ“š 4 citations Person
2,543
views
84
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901โ€“1994)
๐Ÿ“š 70 citations Person
2,527
views
85
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
๐Ÿ“š 3 citations Person
2,510
views
86
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
๐Ÿ“š 30 citations Person
2,498
views
87
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
๐Ÿ“š 76 citations Person
2,476
views
88
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933โ€“2002)
๐Ÿ“š 9 citations Person
2,438
views
89
Judith Curry
American climatologist
๐Ÿ“š 7 citations Person
2,429
views
90
Ronald McNair
Ronald McNair
American physicist, astronaut (1950-1986)
๐Ÿ“š 8 citations Person
2,414
views
91
Max Born
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
๐Ÿ“š 48 citations Person
2,368
views
92
Thales
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
๐Ÿ“š 40 citations Person
2,356
views
93
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ€“1794)
๐Ÿ“š 37 citations Person
2,353
views
94
Vikram Sarabhai
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919โ€“1971)
๐Ÿ“š 7 citations Person
2,254
views
95
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ€“1966)
Person
2,250
views
96
James Watt
James Watt
British engineer (1736โ€“1819)
๐Ÿ“š 37 citations Person
2,247
views
97
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
๐Ÿ“š 33 citations Person
2,235
views
98
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
๐Ÿ“š 69 citations Person
2,232
views
99
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862โ€“1943)
๐Ÿ“š 42 citations Person
2,229
views
100
James Watson
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928โ€“2025)
๐Ÿ“š 61 citations Person
2,229
views