Trending Physicists in Japan — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, September 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Leonardo da Vinci. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
470,029
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
26,554
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
21,263
views
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
16,423
views
views
4
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
15,057
views
views
5
Jun Inoue
Japanese actor
14,116
views
views
6
Naoto Kan
94th Prime Minister of Japan
13,441
views
views
7
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
12,368
views
views
8
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
12,345
views
views
9
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
11,644
views
views
10
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
10,702
views
views
11
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
9,958
views
views
12
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
9,645
views
views
13
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
9,600
views
views
14
Yasunori Nomura
Japanese theoretical physicist (1974-)
9,190
views
views
15
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
8,981
views
views
16
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
8,697
views
views
17
Chihaya Adachi
researcher
8,668
views
views
18
Sakuma Shōzan
Japanese politician (1811-1864)
8,665
views
views
19
Hideki Yukawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
8,589
views
views
20
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
7,916
views
views
21
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
7,558
views
views
22
Akio Morita
Japanese businessman (1921-1999)
7,302
views
views
23
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
6,964
views
views
24
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
6,504
views
views
25
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
6,499
views
views
26
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
5,858
views
views
27
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
5,485
views
views
28
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist (1925-)
5,172
views
views
29
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
5,098
views
views
30
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
5,063
views
views
31
Yoshihiko Ōtsuki
Japanese plasma physicist (born 1936)
4,742
views
views
32
Shinichiro Tomonaga
Japanese physicist (1906-1979)
4,555
views
views
33
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
4,499
views
views
34
Torahiko Terada
Japanese physicist (1878–1935)
4,305
views
views
35
Yamakawa Kenjirō
Japanese physicist (1854-1931)
4,068
views
views
36
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
4,049
views
views
37
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
3,943
views
views
38
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
3,746
views
views
39
Valentin Ceaușescu
Romanian physicist (born 1947)
3,621
views
views
40
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
3,566
views
views
41
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
3,442
views
views
42
Masato Sagawa
Japanese physicist (1943-)
3,354
views
views
43
Yoshitaka Yamamoto
Japanese physicist
3,315
views
views
44
Masatoshi Koshiba
Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)
3,252
views
views
45
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
3,108
views
views
46
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
3,100
views
views
47
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
3,003
views
views
48
Sumio Iijima
Japanese physicist, chemist, and nanotechnologist (born 1939)
3,000
views
views
49
Yū Kamiwaki
Japanese actress
2,827
views
views
50
Aya Ishihara
Japanese astrophysicist
2,802
views
views
51
Yoichiro Nambu
American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)
2,718
views
views
52
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
2,691
views
views
53
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Japanese physicist (1926-2018)
2,680
views
views
54
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
2,509
views
views
55
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
2,500
views
views
56
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
2,488
views
views
57
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
2,465
views
views
58
Takaaki Kajita
Japanese physicist and astronomer
2,449
views
views
59
Syukuro Manabe
Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931–)
2,389
views
views
60
Hiroshi Amano
Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
2,356
views
views
61
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
2,316
views
views
62
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
2,223
views
views
63
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
2,140
views
views
64
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
2,041
views
views
65
Eugene Paul Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
2,014
views
views
66
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
1,998
views
views
67
Yoshio Nishina
Japanese physicist (1890–1951)
1,964
views
views
68
Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
1,954
views
views
69
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
1,887
views
views
70
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
1,846
views
views
71
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
1,825
views
views
72
Isamu Akasaki
Japanese engineer (1929-2021)
1,811
views
views
73
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
1,794
views
views
74
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
1,783
views
views
75
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
1,776
views
views
76
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
1,758
views
views
77
Toshihide Maskawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1940–2021)
1,743
views
views
78
Tsutomu Shimomura
American physicist and computer security expert
1,666
views
views
79
Ukichiro Nakaya
Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences (1900-1962)
1,656
views
views
80
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
1,651
views
views
81
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
1,643
views
views
82
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
1,593
views
views
83
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
1,574
views
views
84
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
1,569
views
views
85
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
1,530
views
views
86
Donna Strickland
Canadian physicist, Nobel laurate
1,526
views
views
87
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
1,526
views
views
88
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
1,526
views
views
89
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
1,501
views
views
90
Makoto Kobayashi
Japanese theoretical physicist (1944–)
1,493
views
views
91
Taylor Wilson
American student, scientist
1,492
views
views
92
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician (1826–1866)
1,482
views
views
93
Kohei Itoh
Japanese physicist, the 19th President of Keio University
1,446
views
views
94
Nagaoka Hantarō
Japanese physicist (1865–1950)
1,407
views
views
95
Taizō Muta
Japanese physicist
1,358
views
views
96
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
1,354
views
views
97
Hitoshi Murayama
Japanese-born physicist with notable contributions in the fields of particle physics and cosmology (1964-)
1,351
views
views
98
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
1,350
views
views
99
Kōtarō Honda
Japanese physicist and metallurgist (1870-1954)
1,309
views
views
100
Akito Arima
Japanese physicist and politician (1930–2020)
1,286
views
views