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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10,665
Total Views (this month)
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1
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
496
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2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
487
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3
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
401
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4
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
400
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views
5
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
316
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views
6
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
302
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views
7
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
280
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8
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
271
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9
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
268
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10
Sakuma ShΕzan
Japanese politician (1811-1864)
255
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views
11
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
249
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12
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
235
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views
13
Yamakawa KenjirΕ
Japanese physicist (1854-1931)
230
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views
14
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
228
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views
15
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
222
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16
Naoto Kan
94th Prime Minister of Japan
218
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17
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
207
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views
18
Akio Morita
Japanese businessman (1921-1999)
198
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views
19
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
197
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views
20
Hideki Yukawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
191
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views
21
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
181
views
views
22
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
173
views
views
23
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
151
views
views
24
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
144
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views
25
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
124
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views
26
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
120
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views
27
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
119
views
views
28
Yasunori Nomura
theoretical physicist
114
views
views
29
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
114
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views
30
Akira Yamamoto
Japanese physicist
112
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views
31
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist (1925-)
105
views
views
32
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
103
views
views
33
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
98
views
views
34
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
88
views
views
35
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632β1723)
88
views
views
36
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
88
views
views
37
Yoshitaka Yamamoto
Japanese physicist
84
views
views
38
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
83
views
views
39
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
83
views
views
40
Yoshihiko Εtsuki
Japanese plasma physicist (born 1936)
81
views
views
41
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
80
views
views
42
Torahiko Terada
Japanese physicist (1878β1935)
80
views
views
43
Yoichiro Nambu
American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)
79
views
views
44
Shin'ichirΕ Tomonaga
Japanese physicist (1906-1979)
74
views
views
45
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
69
views
views
46
Masatoshi Koshiba
Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)
67
views
views
47
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
67
views
views
48
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
65
views
views
49
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
62
views
views
50
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
59
views
views
51
Takaaki Kajita
Japanese physicist and astronomer
57
views
views
52
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
55
views
views
53
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
54
views
views
54
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
54
views
views
55
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
53
views
views
56
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
50
views
views
57
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
49
views
views
58
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
49
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views
59
Syukuro Manabe
Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931β)
48
views
views
60
Isamu Akasaki
Japanese engineer (1929-2021)
48
views
views
61
Ukichiro Nakaya
Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences (1900-1962)
48
views
views
62
James Watt
British engineer (1736β1819)
47
views
views
63
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
47
views
views
64
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
46
views
views
65
Hiroshi Amano
Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
46
views
views
66
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
45
views
views
67
Nagaoka HantarΕ
Japanese physicist (1865β1950)
44
views
views
68
Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician and philosopher (1861β1947)
42
views
views
69
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
41
views
views
70
Yoshio Nishina
Japanese physicist (1890β1951)
40
views
views
71
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
40
views
views
72
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928β2025)
40
views
views
73
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749β1827)
40
views
views
74
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
39
views
views
75
Makoto Kobayashi
Japanese theoretical physicist (1944β)
39
views
views
76
Kohei Itoh
Japanese physicist, the 19th President of Keio University
39
views
views
77
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
39
views
views
78
Wilhelm RΓΆntgen
German physicist (1845β1923)
39
views
views
79
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
39
views
views
80
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
38
views
views
81
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
38
views
views
82
Masatoshi ΕkΕchi
businessperson
38
views
views
83
Yoshio Tawara
Japanese physicist
37
views
views
84
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
37
views
views
85
Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.
1940s physicist who died of radiation poisoning (1921β1945)
37
views
views
86
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
37
views
views
87
Sho Yano
American physician
37
views
views
88
Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852β1908)
36
views
views
89
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
36
views
views
90
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736β1813)
35
views
views
91
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
34
views
views
92
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Japanese physicist (1926-2018)
34
views
views
93
Toshihide Maskawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1940β2021)
34
views
views
94
Henri PoincarΓ©
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854β1912)
34
views
views
95
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
34
views
views
96
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
34
views
views
97
ChΕyΕ« Εtani
Brazilian physicist
33
views
views
98
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
33
views
views
99
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
33
views
views
100
Tadahiro Sekimoto
Japanese businessman (1926β2007)
33
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