Trending Physicists this year
The 100 most-viewed physicists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein.
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Ranked
2,352,830
Total Views (this year)
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1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
136,938
views
views
2
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904β1967)
114,245
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
93,471
views
views
4
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
89,529
views
views
5
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
77,336
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
75,458
views
views
7
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
74,669
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642β1727)
68,316
views
views
9
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
55,867
views
views
10
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
52,742
views
views
11
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
51,999
views
views
12
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
47,944
views
views
13
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
44,146
views
views
14
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
41,646
views
views
15
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
40,174
views
views
16
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
39,891
views
views
17
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564β1642)
35,849
views
views
18
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
33,495
views
views
19
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
33,210
views
views
20
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
32,426
views
views
21
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
30,061
views
views
22
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
29,985
views
views
23
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
29,478
views
views
24
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
27,116
views
views
25
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
26,187
views
views
26
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
25,842
views
views
27
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
25,135
views
views
28
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
25,096
views
views
29
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
24,069
views
views
30
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
23,718
views
views
31
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
23,424
views
views
32
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
23,392
views
views
33
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
23,215
views
views
34
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
22,747
views
views
35
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
22,741
views
views
36
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
22,435
views
views
37
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
19,269
views
views
38
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
18,702
views
views
39
Kurt GΓΆdel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906β1978)
18,000
views
views
40
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
17,661
views
views
41
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
16,250
views
views
42
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
16,001
views
views
43
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
15,817
views
views
44
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
15,081
views
views
45
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909β1966)
14,542
views
views
46
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
14,471
views
views
47
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
14,461
views
views
48
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
14,369
views
views
49
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
14,333
views
views
50
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
14,225
views
views
51
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
13,872
views
views
52
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
13,845
views
views
53
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
13,451
views
views
54
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
12,846
views
views
55
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
12,823
views
views
56
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
12,715
views
views
57
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
12,660
views
views
58
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
12,514
views
views
59
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
12,360
views
views
60
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
12,286
views
views
61
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
11,893
views
views
62
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
11,422
views
views
63
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
11,155
views
views
64
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
11,123
views
views
65
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
10,799
views
views
66
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882β1970)
10,619
views
views
67
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928β2025)
10,234
views
views
68
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
9,958
views
views
69
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
9,917
views
views
70
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930β2002)
9,804
views
views
71
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
9,706
views
views
72
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
9,695
views
views
73
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
9,648
views
views
74
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
9,571
views
views
75
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
9,548
views
views
76
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
9,404
views
views
77
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
9,360
views
views
78
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871β1937)
9,112
views
views
79
Frank Oppenheimer
American particle physicist (1912β1985)
9,083
views
views
80
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933β2002)
8,961
views
views
81
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
8,953
views
views
82
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
8,919
views
views
83
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
8,916
views
views
84
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
8,647
views
views
85
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
8,606
views
views
86
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919β1971)
8,026
views
views
87
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
7,829
views
views
88
Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901β1958)
7,776
views
views
89
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
7,748
views
views
90
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor and painter (1791β1872)
7,735
views
views
91
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048β1131)
7,465
views
views
92
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
7,411
views
views
93
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928β2025)
7,379
views
views
94
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
7,258
views
views
95
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
7,243
views
views
96
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882β1935)
7,210
views
views
97
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
7,183
views
views
98
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
7,097
views
views
99
Pavel Jungwirth
Czech chemist and academic (1966β2026)
6,994
views
views
100
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist (1977β2025)
6,877
views
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