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Trending Physicists in Japan this month

The 100 most-viewed physicists this month on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein.

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1
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
πŸ“š 92 citations Person
496
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452βˆ’1519)
πŸ“š 55 citations Person
487
views
3
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
401
views
4
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
400
views
5
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
πŸ“š 52 citations Person
316
views
6
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
302
views
7
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904–1967)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
280
views
8
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
πŸ“š 75 citations Person
271
views
9
Aristotle
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
πŸ“š 70 citations Person
268
views
10
Sakuma Shōzan
Japanese politician (1811-1864)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
255
views
11
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
πŸ“š 72 citations Person
249
views
12
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
235
views
13
Yamakawa Kenjirō
Japanese physicist (1854-1931)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
230
views
14
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
πŸ“š 102 citations Person
228
views
15
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
πŸ“š 54 citations Person
222
views
16
Naoto Kan
94th Prime Minister of Japan
πŸ“š 12 citations Person
218
views
17
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
πŸ“š 41 citations Person
207
views
18
Akio Morita
Akio Morita
Japanese businessman (1921-1999)
πŸ“š 20 citations Person
198
views
19
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
πŸ“š 38 citations Person
197
views
20
Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
191
views
21
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
πŸ“š 32 citations Person
181
views
22
RenΓ© Descartes
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
173
views
23
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
πŸ“š 47 citations Person
151
views
24
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
πŸ“š 57 citations Person
144
views
25
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
πŸ“š 41 citations Person
124
views
26
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
πŸ“š 76 citations Person
120
views
27
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
119
views
28
Yasunori Nomura
theoretical physicist
Person
114
views
29
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
πŸ“š 50 citations Person
114
views
30
Akira Yamamoto
Japanese physicist
Person
112
views
31
Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist (1925-)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
105
views
32
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
103
views
33
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
πŸ“š 133 citations Person
98
views
34
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
πŸ“š 45 citations Person
88
views
35
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
88
views
36
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
88
views
37
Yoshitaka Yamamoto
Japanese physicist
Person
84
views
38
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
83
views
39
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
83
views
40
Yoshihiko Ōtsuki
Japanese plasma physicist (born 1936)
Person
81
views
41
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
80
views
42
Torahiko Terada
Torahiko Terada
Japanese physicist (1878–1935)
πŸ“š 6 citations Person
80
views
43
Yoichiro Nambu
American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
79
views
44
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
Japanese physicist (1906-1979)
πŸ“š 23 citations Person
74
views
45
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
πŸ“š 43 citations Person
69
views
46
Masatoshi Koshiba
Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)
πŸ“š 20 citations Person
67
views
47
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
67
views
48
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
65
views
49
Louis Slotin
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
πŸ“š 5 citations Person
62
views
50
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
πŸ“š 74 citations Person
59
views
51
Takaaki Kajita
Japanese physicist and astronomer
πŸ“š 13 citations Person
57
views
52
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
55
views
53
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
πŸ“š 36 citations Person
54
views
54
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
πŸ“š 26 citations Person
54
views
55
Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
53
views
56
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
50
views
57
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
49
views
58
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
πŸ“š 33 citations Person
49
views
59
Syukuro Manabe
Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931–)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
48
views
60
Isamu Akasaki
Japanese engineer (1929-2021)
πŸ“š 19 citations Person
48
views
61
Ukichiro Nakaya
Ukichiro Nakaya
Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences (1900-1962)
πŸ“š 7 citations Person
48
views
62
James Watt
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
47
views
63
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
πŸ“š 37 citations Person
47
views
64
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β€” 1703)
πŸ“š 48 citations Person
46
views
65
Hiroshi Amano
Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
πŸ“š 10 citations Person
46
views
66
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
45
views
67
Nagaoka Hantarō
Nagaoka Hantarō
Japanese physicist (1865–1950)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
44
views
68
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)
πŸ“š 28 citations Person
42
views
69
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
41
views
70
Yoshio Nishina
Yoshio Nishina
Japanese physicist (1890–1951)
πŸ“š 11 citations Person
40
views
71
Avicenna
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
πŸ“š 44 citations Person
40
views
72
James Watson
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
πŸ“š 61 citations Person
40
views
73
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
40
views
74
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
πŸ“š 30 citations Person
39
views
75
Makoto Kobayashi
Japanese theoretical physicist (1944–)
πŸ“š 15 citations Person
39
views
76
Kohei Itoh
Japanese physicist, the 19th President of Keio University
Person
39
views
77
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
39
views
78
Wilhelm RΓΆntgen
Wilhelm RΓΆntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
39
views
79
Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
39
views
80
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
πŸ“š 42 citations Person
38
views
81
Edward Teller
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
38
views
82
Masatoshi Ōkōchi
businessperson
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
38
views
83
Yoshio Tawara
Japanese physicist
Person
37
views
84
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
πŸ“š 21 citations Person
37
views
85
Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.
1940s physicist who died of radiation poisoning (1921–1945)
πŸ“š 2 citations Person
37
views
86
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
πŸ“š 46 citations Person
37
views
87
Sho Yano
American physician
πŸ“š 3 citations Person
37
views
88
Henri Becquerel
Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
πŸ“š 35 citations Person
36
views
89
Kurt GΓΆdel
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
πŸ“š 34 citations Person
36
views
90
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
35
views
91
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
πŸ“š 40 citations Person
34
views
92
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Japanese physicist (1926-2018)
πŸ“š 14 citations Person
34
views
93
Toshihide Maskawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1940–2021)
πŸ“š 17 citations Person
34
views
94
Henri PoincarΓ©
Henri PoincarΓ©
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
34
views
95
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
πŸ“š 49 citations Person
34
views
96
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
πŸ“š 1 citation Person
34
views
97
Chōyū Ōtani
Brazilian physicist
Person
33
views
98
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
πŸ“š 29 citations Person
33
views
99
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
πŸ“š 76 citations Person
33
views
100
Tadahiro Sekimoto
Japanese businessman (1926–2007)
πŸ“š 8 citations Person
33
views