Trending Physicists in USA this month
The 100 most-viewed physicists this month on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Sally Ride.
100
Ranked
1,178,213
Total Views (this month)
Country
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๐บ๐ธ USA
๐ฉ๐ช Germany
๐ซ๐ท France
๐ฏ๐ต Japan
๐ช๐ธ Spain
๐ง๐ท Brazil
๐ท๐บ Russia
๐จ๐ณ China
1
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ2012)
130,272
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879โ1955)
60,945
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ2018)
40,808
views
views
4
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706โ1790)
36,492
views
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856โ1943)
34,994
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โ1519)
34,022
views
views
7
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867โ1934)
33,467
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
31,649
views
views
9
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
31,073
views
views
10
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904โ1967)
30,100
views
views
11
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918โ1988)
24,047
views
views
12
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912โ1977)
21,973
views
views
13
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
21,492
views
views
14
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ1783)
19,786
views
views
15
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
19,570
views
views
16
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
18,777
views
views
17
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
18,725
views
views
18
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847โ1931)
18,204
views
views
19
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ1996)
17,162
views
views
20
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
15,647
views
views
21
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
15,521
views
views
22
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
13,350
views
views
23
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
13,340
views
views
24
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
13,206
views
views
25
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
12,602
views
views
26
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ1650)
12,154
views
views
27
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
11,885
views
views
28
Steven Hawley
American astronaut
11,778
views
views
29
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901โ1976)
11,189
views
views
30
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903โ1957)
11,160
views
views
31
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917โ2008)
10,967
views
views
32
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
10,638
views
views
33
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
10,552
views
views
34
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ c. 212 BC)
10,330
views
views
35
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749โ1832)
10,096
views
views
36
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847โ1922)
10,053
views
views
37
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
9,889
views
views
38
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
9,396
views
views
39
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
8,670
views
views
40
Benedetto Vigna
Italian physicist
8,245
views
views
41
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908โ2003)
8,162
views
views
42
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930โ2002)
7,942
views
views
43
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
7,625
views
views
44
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902โ1984)
7,500
views
views
45
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ1855)
7,342
views
views
46
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791โ1867)
6,956
views
views
47
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909โ1966)
6,946
views
views
48
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
6,789
views
views
49
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920โ1958)
6,767
views
views
50
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
6,663
views
views
51
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646โ1716)
6,646
views
views
52
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ1037)
6,579
views
views
53
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885โ1962)
6,552
views
views
54
Erwin Schrรถdinger
Austrian physicist (1887โ1961)
6,376
views
views
55
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831โ1879)
6,339
views
views
56
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859โ1906)
6,325
views
views
57
Enrico Fermi
ItalianโAmerican physicist (1901โ1954)
6,023
views
views
58
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
5,584
views
views
59
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
5,367
views
views
60
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
5,305
views
views
61
Kurt Gรถdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
5,250
views
views
62
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858โ1947)
5,170
views
views
63
Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist (1926-2020)
5,076
views
views
64
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
4,984
views
views
65
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888โ1970)
4,886
views
views
66
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ1630)
4,872
views
views
67
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928โ2025)
4,834
views
views
68
Mileva Mariฤ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875โ1948)
4,790
views
views
69
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868โ1934)
4,705
views
views
70
Irรจne Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897โ1956)
4,669
views
views
71
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906โ1992)
4,537
views
views
72
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
4,430
views
views
73
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882โ1935)
4,255
views
views
74
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
4,223
views
views
75
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
4,220
views
views
76
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
4,218
views
views
77
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
4,183
views
views
78
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
4,176
views
views
79
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936โ2021)
4,139
views
views
80
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871โ1937)
4,044
views
views
81
Harold E. Puthoff
American physicist
3,853
views
views
82
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
3,766
views
views
83
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901โ1994)
3,754
views
views
84
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
3,730
views
views
85
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
3,625
views
views
86
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834โ1907)
3,580
views
views
87
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
3,561
views
views
88
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933โ2002)
3,456
views
views
89
Leonard Susskind
American physicist
3,362
views
views
90
Richard D. Field
emeritus professor of physics
3,355
views
views
91
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
3,336
views
views
92
William of Ockham
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287โ1347)
3,322
views
views
93
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743โ1794)
3,303
views
views
94
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
3,301
views
views
95
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 โ 1703)
3,258
views
views
96
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862โ1943)
3,235
views
views
97
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
3,228
views
views
98
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ1131)
3,193
views
views
99
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ1966)
3,161
views
views
100
Fidel รngel Castro Dรญaz-Balart
first son of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro
3,159
views
views
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