Trending Physicists in USA — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, September 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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5,253,895
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
290,897
views
views
2
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
221,479
views
views
3
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
208,586
views
views
4
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
178,019
views
views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
168,737
views
views
6
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
167,093
views
views
7
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
165,189
views
views
8
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
164,228
views
views
9
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
151,962
views
views
10
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
110,482
views
views
11
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
106,139
views
views
12
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
97,789
views
views
13
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
96,617
views
views
14
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
91,505
views
views
15
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
88,414
views
views
16
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
87,144
views
views
17
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
84,707
views
views
18
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
75,903
views
views
19
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
73,242
views
views
20
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
73,195
views
views
21
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
70,127
views
views
22
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
69,968
views
views
23
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
66,237
views
views
24
William Nicholas Hitchon
British nuclear physicist and participant in the Up documentary television series
65,962
views
views
25
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
64,776
views
views
26
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
62,112
views
views
27
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
57,091
views
views
28
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
55,847
views
views
29
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
55,578
views
views
30
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
55,229
views
views
31
Sasquatch
fictional character in Marvel Comics
53,808
views
views
32
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
53,097
views
views
33
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
52,618
views
views
34
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
49,833
views
views
35
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
46,590
views
views
36
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
44,637
views
views
37
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
42,100
views
views
38
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
41,409
views
views
39
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
39,332
views
views
40
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
39,079
views
views
41
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
38,283
views
views
42
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
38,282
views
views
43
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
37,975
views
views
44
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
36,680
views
views
45
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
35,550
views
views
46
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
34,612
views
views
47
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
34,303
views
views
48
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
33,049
views
views
49
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
32,133
views
views
50
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
31,919
views
views
51
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
30,714
views
views
52
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
29,203
views
views
53
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
29,067
views
views
54
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
28,884
views
views
55
Cornelis Drebbel
Dutch inventor and submarine pioneer
28,803
views
views
56
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
28,213
views
views
57
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
28,099
views
views
58
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
27,585
views
views
59
Ada Yonath
Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate (1939–2026)
27,472
views
views
60
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
27,286
views
views
61
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
26,994
views
views
62
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
26,860
views
views
63
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
26,346
views
views
64
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
26,196
views
views
65
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
26,064
views
views
66
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
25,593
views
views
67
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
25,318
views
views
68
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
24,466
views
views
69
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
24,068
views
views
70
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
23,711
views
views
71
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
23,052
views
views
72
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
22,913
views
views
73
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
22,704
views
views
74
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
21,790
views
views
75
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
20,802
views
views
76
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
20,592
views
views
77
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
20,490
views
views
78
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
20,399
views
views
79
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
19,732
views
views
80
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
19,708
views
views
81
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
19,516
views
views
82
Joseph John Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
19,354
views
views
83
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928–2025)
19,258
views
views
84
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
19,083
views
views
85
Carlo Rovelli
Italian physicist
19,054
views
views
86
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
18,920
views
views
87
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
18,658
views
views
88
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
18,310
views
views
89
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
18,028
views
views
90
Abdus Salam
theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
17,981
views
views
91
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
17,966
views
views
92
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
17,926
views
views
93
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
17,495
views
views
94
Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)
17,330
views
views
95
Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.
1940s physicist who died of radiation poisoning (1921–1945)
17,329
views
views
96
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
17,204
views
views
97
Bernardo A. Huberman
Argentine American physicist
17,090
views
views
98
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
17,047
views
views
99
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
16,925
views
views
100
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
16,754
views
views