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Trending Physicists in USA this week

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

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Country ๐ŸŒ Global ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
1
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879โ€“1955)
๐Ÿ“š 92 citations Person
31,681
views
2
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
๐Ÿ“š 32 citations Person
24,974
views
3
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942โ€“2018)
๐Ÿ“š 102 citations Person
22,481
views
4
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706โ€“1790)
๐Ÿ“š 57 citations Person
19,103
views
5
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856โ€“1943)
๐Ÿ“š 38 citations Person
18,383
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452โˆ’1519)
๐Ÿ“š 55 citations Person
17,600
views
7
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867โ€“1934)
๐Ÿ“š 72 citations Person
17,074
views
8
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904โ€“1967)
๐Ÿ“š 57 citations Person
16,143
views
9
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
๐Ÿ“š 54 citations Person
15,994
views
10
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918โ€“1988)
๐Ÿ“š 49 citations Person
14,173
views
11
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912โ€“1977)
๐Ÿ“š 46 citations Person
13,710
views
12
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
๐Ÿ“š 41 citations Person
12,624
views
13
Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
๐Ÿ“š 29 citations Person
11,963
views
14
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
๐Ÿ“š 26 citations Person
10,792
views
15
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934โ€“1996)
๐Ÿ“š 42 citations Person
9,662
views
16
Aristotle
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
๐Ÿ“š 70 citations Person
9,347
views
17
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
๐Ÿ“š 32 citations Person
9,050
views
18
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930โ€“2002)
๐Ÿ“š 26 citations Person
9,036
views
19
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847โ€“1931)
๐Ÿ“š 47 citations Person
9,007
views
20
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
๐Ÿ“š 1 citation Person
8,919
views
21
Sally Ride
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951โ€“2012)
๐Ÿ“š 19 citations Person
8,196
views
22
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
๐Ÿ“š 52 citations Person
7,734
views
23
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
๐Ÿ“š 28 citations Person
7,574
views
24
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
๐Ÿ“š 6 citations Person
7,366
views
25
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917โ€“2008)
๐Ÿ“š 76 citations Person
7,084
views
26
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
๐Ÿ“š 38 citations Person
6,812
views
27
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707โ€“1783)
๐Ÿ“š 50 citations Person
6,741
views
28
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
๐Ÿ“š 2 citations Person
6,449
views
29
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
๐Ÿ“š 133 citations Person
6,094
views
30
Renรฉ Descartes
Renรฉ Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596โ€“1650)
๐Ÿ“š 48 citations Person
6,066
views
31
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
๐Ÿ“š 8 citations Person
5,995
views
32
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 โ€“ c. 212 BC)
๐Ÿ“š 32 citations Person
5,889
views
33
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749โ€“1832)
๐Ÿ“š 75 citations Person
5,720
views
34
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903โ€“1957)
๐Ÿ“š 37 citations Person
5,531
views
35
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901โ€“1976)
๐Ÿ“š 43 citations Person
5,401
views
36
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847โ€“1922)
๐Ÿ“š 36 citations Person
5,288
views
37
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
๐Ÿ“š 43 citations Person
5,051
views
38
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
๐Ÿ“š 81 citations Person
4,555
views
39
Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902โ€“1984)
๐Ÿ“š 42 citations Person
4,296
views
40
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
๐Ÿ“š 42 citations Person
4,251
views
41
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791โ€“1867)
๐Ÿ“š 49 citations Person
3,623
views
42
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777โ€“1855)
๐Ÿ“š 44 citations Person
3,611
views
43
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909โ€“1966)
๐Ÿ“š 14 citations Person
3,604
views
44
Edward Teller
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908โ€“2003)
๐Ÿ“š 35 citations Person
3,579
views
45
Avicenna
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980โ€“1037)
๐Ÿ“š 44 citations Person
3,506
views
46
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
๐Ÿ“š 46 citations Person
3,447
views
47
Erwin Schrรถdinger
Erwin Schrรถdinger
Austrian physicist (1887โ€“1961)
๐Ÿ“š 30 citations Person
3,443
views
48
Raymond Davis Jr.
Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006)
๐Ÿ“š 19 citations Person
3,394
views
49
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831โ€“1879)
๐Ÿ“š 48 citations Person
3,321
views
50
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885โ€“1962)
๐Ÿ“š 74 citations Person
3,253
views
51
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646โ€“1716)
๐Ÿ“š 61 citations Person
3,188
views
52
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
๐Ÿ“š 5 citations Person
3,150
views
53
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
Person
3,049
views
54
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
Person
3,017
views
55
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italianโ€“American physicist (1901โ€“1954)
๐Ÿ“š 47 citations Person
3,011
views
56
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920โ€“1958)
๐Ÿ“š 26 citations Person
2,980
views
57
Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
๐Ÿ“š 21 citations Person
2,943
views
58
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
๐Ÿ“š 21 citations Person
2,928
views
59
Rajnath Singh
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
๐Ÿ“š 19 citations Person
2,827
views
60
Louis Slotin
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
๐Ÿ“š 5 citations Person
2,747
views
61
Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928โ€“2025)
๐Ÿ“š 18 citations Person
2,729
views
62
Leonard Susskind
American physicist
๐Ÿ“š 19 citations Person
2,726
views
63
Mileva Mariฤ‡
Mileva Mariฤ‡
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875โ€“1948)
๐Ÿ“š 21 citations Person
2,683
views
64
Kurt Gรถdel
Kurt Gรถdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
๐Ÿ“š 34 citations Person
2,674
views
65
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858โ€“1947)
๐Ÿ“š 46 citations Person
2,645
views
66
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859โ€“1906)
๐Ÿ“š 49 citations Person
2,636
views
67
Don Lincoln
American physicist
๐Ÿ“š 14 citations Person
2,585
views
68
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888โ€“1970)
๐Ÿ“š 28 citations Person
2,439
views
69
Hans Albert Einstein
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
๐Ÿ“š 18 citations Person
2,424
views
70
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868โ€“1934)
๐Ÿ“š 33 citations Person
2,398
views
71
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
๐Ÿ“š 26 citations Person
2,320
views
72
Irรจne Joliot-Curie
Irรจne Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897โ€“1956)
๐Ÿ“š 40 citations Person
2,306
views
73
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571โ€“1630)
๐Ÿ“š 45 citations Person
2,279
views
74
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
๐Ÿ“š 45 citations Person
2,263
views
75
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
๐Ÿ“š 17 citations Person
2,237
views
76
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
๐Ÿ“š 3 citations Person
2,220
views
77
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906โ€“1992)
๐Ÿ“š 39 citations Person
2,164
views
78
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871โ€“1937)
๐Ÿ“š 46 citations Person
2,148
views
79
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
๐Ÿ“š 46 citations Person
2,096
views
80
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)
๐Ÿ“š 30 citations Person
2,060
views
81
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901โ€“1994)
๐Ÿ“š 70 citations Person
1,998
views
82
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
๐Ÿ“š 76 citations Person
1,958
views
83
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936โ€“2021)
๐Ÿ“š 8 citations Person
1,949
views
84
Max Born
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
๐Ÿ“š 48 citations Person
1,924
views
85
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933โ€“2002)
๐Ÿ“š 9 citations Person
1,920
views
86
Benedetto Vigna
Italian physicist
๐Ÿ“š 1 citation Person
1,897
views
87
Ronald McNair
Ronald McNair
American physicist, astronaut (1950-1986)
๐Ÿ“š 8 citations Person
1,874
views
88
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834โ€“1907)
๐Ÿ“š 34 citations Person
1,867
views
89
Richard D. Field
emeritus professor of physics
Person
1,865
views
90
Edward Witten
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
๐Ÿ“š 48 citations Person
1,776
views
91
Vikram Sarabhai
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919โ€“1971)
๐Ÿ“š 7 citations Person
1,726
views
92
Thales
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
๐Ÿ“š 40 citations Person
1,714
views
93
Robert H. Goddard
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
๐Ÿ“š 24 citations Person
1,703
views
94
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
๐Ÿ“š 4 citations Person
1,694
views
95
James Watt
James Watt
British engineer (1736โ€“1819)
๐Ÿ“š 37 citations Person
1,692
views
96
Georges Lemaรฎtre
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894โ€“1966)
Person
1,690
views
97
Jiankui He
Chinese biophysicist (1984-)
๐Ÿ“š 7 citations Person
1,688
views
98
Omar Khayyรกm
Persian mathematician and poet (1048โ€“1131)
๐Ÿ“š 32 citations Person
1,685
views
99
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
๐Ÿ“š 33 citations Person
1,684
views
100
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
๐Ÿ“š 69 citations Person
1,678
views