Trending Physicists in USA — the 7 days to 26 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 26 October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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1,149,391
Total Views (the 7 days to 26 October 2026)
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
69,030
views
views
2
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
50,466
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
40,103
views
views
4
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
39,621
views
views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
37,880
views
views
6
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
36,561
views
views
7
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
36,514
views
views
8
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
34,850
views
views
9
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
23,119
views
views
10
Ashoke Sen
Indian physicist
22,805
views
views
11
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
22,665
views
views
12
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
22,574
views
views
13
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
22,482
views
views
14
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
21,274
views
views
15
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
18,119
views
views
16
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
18,105
views
views
17
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
17,243
views
views
18
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
16,925
views
views
19
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
16,723
views
views
20
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
16,328
views
views
21
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
15,549
views
views
22
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
15,323
views
views
23
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
14,825
views
views
24
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
14,027
views
views
25
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
13,564
views
views
26
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
13,360
views
views
27
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
12,597
views
views
28
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
12,449
views
views
29
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
12,246
views
views
30
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
11,930
views
views
31
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
11,740
views
views
32
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
11,583
views
views
33
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
10,513
views
views
34
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
10,483
views
views
35
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
10,443
views
views
36
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
10,199
views
views
37
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
10,099
views
views
38
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
9,392
views
views
39
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
9,134
views
views
40
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
9,128
views
views
41
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
8,498
views
views
42
Pramod Mahajan
Indian politician (1949-2006)
8,190
views
views
43
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
8,053
views
views
44
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
8,006
views
views
45
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
7,563
views
views
46
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
7,553
views
views
47
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
7,411
views
views
48
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
7,291
views
views
49
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
7,268
views
views
50
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
7,266
views
views
51
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
7,110
views
views
52
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
7,009
views
views
53
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
6,835
views
views
54
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
6,832
views
views
55
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
6,829
views
views
56
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
6,678
views
views
57
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
6,381
views
views
58
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
6,324
views
views
59
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
6,275
views
views
60
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
6,208
views
views
61
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist and Nobel laureate (1933–2026)
6,202
views
views
62
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
6,101
views
views
63
Francis Halzen
Belgian-American astrophysicist
5,961
views
views
64
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
5,921
views
views
65
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
5,680
views
views
66
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
5,622
views
views
67
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
5,567
views
views
68
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
5,460
views
views
69
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
5,408
views
views
70
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
5,259
views
views
71
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
5,209
views
views
72
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
5,118
views
views
73
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
5,068
views
views
74
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928–2025)
4,984
views
views
75
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
4,916
views
views
76
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
4,825
views
views
77
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
4,804
views
views
78
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
4,754
views
views
79
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
4,737
views
views
80
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
4,380
views
views
81
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
4,265
views
views
82
Sumathi Rao
Indian physicist
4,228
views
views
83
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
4,186
views
views
84
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
4,180
views
views
85
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
4,165
views
views
86
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
4,139
views
views
87
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
4,133
views
views
88
Satyendra Nath Bose
Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)
3,975
views
views
89
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
3,961
views
views
90
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
3,951
views
views
91
Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)
3,750
views
views
92
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
3,747
views
views
93
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
3,702
views
views
94
Andrey Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician (1903–1987)
3,689
views
views
95
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
3,656
views
views
96
Emmett Brown
fictional character from the American sci-fi film trilogy Back to the Future
3,648
views
views
97
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
3,637
views
views
98
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
3,628
views
views
99
Joseph John Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
3,627
views
views
100
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
3,597
views
views