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
1,391,773
Total Views (this year)
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1
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
81,734
views
views
2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
51,438
views
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
49,442
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
49,016
views
views
5
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
45,077
views
views
6
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
40,999
views
views
7
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
40,880
views
views
8
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
40,746
views
views
9
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
36,417
views
views
10
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
35,948
views
views
11
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
33,641
views
views
12
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
33,595
views
views
13
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
28,901
views
views
14
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
27,003
views
views
15
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
25,025
views
views
16
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
23,538
views
views
17
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
23,529
views
views
18
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
23,281
views
views
19
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
23,259
views
views
20
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
20,447
views
views
21
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
19,924
views
views
22
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
19,711
views
views
23
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
18,013
views
views
24
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
17,865
views
views
25
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
17,475
views
views
26
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
16,699
views
views
27
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
15,756
views
views
28
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
15,434
views
views
29
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
15,078
views
views
30
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
15,051
views
views
31
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
14,097
views
views
32
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
14,015
views
views
33
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
13,958
views
views
34
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
13,007
views
views
35
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
12,526
views
views
36
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
12,375
views
views
37
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
12,314
views
views
38
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
11,020
views
views
39
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
10,408
views
views
40
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
10,190
views
views
41
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
10,188
views
views
42
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
9,781
views
views
43
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
9,601
views
views
44
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
9,487
views
views
45
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
9,204
views
views
46
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930β2002)
8,981
views
views
47
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
8,816
views
views
48
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
8,551
views
views
49
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
8,521
views
views
50
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
8,490
views
views
51
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909β1966)
7,921
views
views
52
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
7,542
views
views
53
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
7,406
views
views
54
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
7,354
views
views
55
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
7,313
views
views
56
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
7,270
views
views
57
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
6,984
views
views
58
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
6,592
views
views
59
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
6,482
views
views
60
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
6,421
views
views
61
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
6,406
views
views
62
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928β2025)
6,345
views
views
63
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
6,301
views
views
64
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
6,258
views
views
65
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
6,193
views
views
66
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
6,089
views
views
67
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
5,981
views
views
68
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
5,646
views
views
69
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor and painter (1791β1872)
5,634
views
views
70
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist (1977β2025)
5,622
views
views
71
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
5,573
views
views
72
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
5,541
views
views
73
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
5,448
views
views
74
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
5,394
views
views
75
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871β1937)
5,306
views
views
76
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
5,286
views
views
77
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
5,174
views
views
78
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
5,116
views
views
79
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
5,026
views
views
80
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
4,949
views
views
81
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936β2021)
4,831
views
views
82
Omar KhayyΓ‘m
Persian mathematician and poet (1048β1131)
4,785
views
views
83
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
4,657
views
views
84
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
4,597
views
views
85
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928β2025)
4,530
views
views
86
Benedetto Vigna
Italian physicist
4,482
views
views
87
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959β2015)
4,393
views
views
88
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921β1989)
4,388
views
views
89
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882β1935)
4,333
views
views
90
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
4,324
views
views
91
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
4,314
views
views
92
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
4,299
views
views
93
Wilhelm RΓΆntgen
German physicist (1845β1923)
4,277
views
views
94
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
4,270
views
views
95
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
4,157
views
views
96
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
4,075
views
views
97
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933β2002)
4,072
views
views
98
Leonard Susskind
American physicist
4,046
views
views
99
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749β1827)
3,964
views
views
100
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
3,954
views
views
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