Trending Physicists in USA this week

1

Albert Einstein

german-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)

📚 92 citations Person

31,681
views

2

Neil deGrasse Tyson

American astrophysicist and science communicator

📚 32 citations Person

24,974
views

3

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

📚 102 citations Person

22,481
views

4

Benjamin Franklin

American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

📚 57 citations Person

19,103
views

5

Nikola Tesla

Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)

📚 38 citations Person

18,383
views

6

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

📚 55 citations Person

17,600
views

7

Marie Curie

Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)

📚 72 citations Person

17,074
views

8

Robert Oppenheimer

American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904–1967)

📚 57 citations Person

16,143
views

9

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)

📚 54 citations Person

15,994
views

10

Richard Feynman

American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)

📚 49 citations Person

14,173
views

11

Wernher von Braun

German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)

📚 46 citations Person

13,710
views

12

Brian May

British musician (born 1947)

📚 41 citations Person

12,624
views

13

Claudia Sheinbaum

president of Mexico since 2024

📚 29 citations Person

11,963
views

14

Brian Cox

English physicist and musician

📚 26 citations Person

10,792
views

15

Carl Sagan

American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)

📚 42 citations Person

9,662
views

16

Aristotle

4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath

📚 70 citations Person

9,347
views

17

Sergei Korolev

Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)

📚 32 citations Person

9,050
views

18

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)

📚 26 citations Person

9,036
views

19

Thomas Edison

American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)

📚 47 citations Person

9,007
views

20

Michelle Thaller

American astronomer

📚 1 citation Person

8,919
views

21

Sally Ride

American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)

📚 19 citations Person

8,196
views

22

Galileo Galilei

Italian polymath (1564-1642)

📚 52 citations Person

7,734
views

23

Katherine Johnson

African-American mathematician

📚 28 citations Person

7,574
views

24

Sheldon Cooper

fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon

📚 6 citations Person

7,366
views

25

Arthur C. Clarke

British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)

📚 76 citations Person

7,084
views

26

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher (1724-1804)

📚 38 citations Person

6,812
views

27

Leonhard Euler

Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)

📚 50 citations Person

6,741
views

28

Bob Lazar

American businessman and ufologist

📚 2 citations Person

6,449
views

29

Angela Merkel

chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)

📚 133 citations Person

6,094
views

30

René Descartes

French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)

📚 48 citations Person

6,066
views

31

Valery Legasov

Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)

📚 8 citations Person

5,995
views

32

Archimedes

Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)

📚 32 citations Person

5,889
views

33

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)

📚 75 citations Person

5,720
views

34

John von Neumann

Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)

📚 37 citations Person

5,531
views

35

Werner Heisenberg

German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)

📚 43 citations Person

5,401
views

36

Alexander Graham Bell

Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)

📚 36 citations Person

5,288
views

37

Nicolaus Copernicus

Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)

📚 43 citations Person

5,051
views

38

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist (born 1955)

📚 81 citations Person

4,555
views

39

Paul Dirac

British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)

📚 42 citations Person

4,296
views

40

Roger Penrose

English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher

📚 42 citations Person

4,251
views

41

Michael Faraday

British scientist (1791–1867)

📚 49 citations Person

3,623
views

42

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)

📚 44 citations Person

3,611
views

43

Homi Jehangir Bhabha

Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)

📚 14 citations Person

3,604
views

44

Edward Teller

Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)

📚 35 citations Person

3,579
views

45

Avicenna

Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)

📚 44 citations Person

3,506
views

46

Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)

📚 46 citations Person

3,447
views

47

Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian physicist (1887–1961)

📚 30 citations Person

3,443
views

48

Raymond Davis Jr.

American scientist (1914-2006)

📚 19 citations Person

3,394
views

49

James Clerk Maxwell

Scottish physicist (1831–1879)

📚 48 citations Person

3,321
views

50

Niels Bohr

Danish physicist (1885–1962)

📚 74 citations Person

3,253
views

51

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)

📚 61 citations Person

3,188
views

52

Lex Luthor

fictional character in DC Comics

📚 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

Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)

📚 47 citations Person

3,011
views

56

Rosalind Franklin

British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)

📚 26 citations Person

2,980
views

57

Michio Kaku

U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)

📚 21 citations Person

2,943
views

58

Heraclitus

Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)

📚 21 citations Person

2,928
views

59

Rajnath Singh

Indian politician

📚 19 citations Person

2,827
views

60

Louis Slotin

Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)

📚 5 citations Person

2,747
views

61

Tom Lehrer

American musician and mathematician (1928–2025)

📚 18 citations Person

2,729
views

62

Leonard Susskind

American physicist

📚 19 citations Person

2,726
views

63

Mileva Marić

Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)

📚 21 citations Person

2,683
views

64

Kurt Gödel

Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)

📚 34 citations Person

2,674
views

65

Max Planck

German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)

📚 46 citations Person

2,645
views

66

Pierre Curie

French physicist (1859–1906)

📚 49 citations Person

2,636
views

67

Don Lincoln

American physicist

📚 14 citations Person

2,585
views

68

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Indian physicist (1888–1970)

📚 28 citations Person

2,439
views

69

Hans Albert Einstein

Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)

📚 18 citations Person

2,424
views

70

Fritz Haber

German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)

📚 33 citations Person

2,398
views

71

Vera Rubin

American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)

📚 26 citations Person

2,320
views

72

Irène Joliot-Curie

French scientist (1897–1956)

📚 40 citations Person

2,306
views

73

Johannes Kepler

German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)

📚 45 citations Person

2,279
views

74

Guglielmo Marconi

Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)

📚 45 citations Person

2,263
views

75

Klaus Fuchs

German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)

📚 17 citations Person

2,237
views

76

Alicia Nash

Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate

📚 3 citations Person

2,220
views

77

Grace Hopper

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

📚 39 citations Person

2,164
views

78

Ernest Rutherford

New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)

📚 46 citations Person

2,148
views

79

Kip S. Thorne

American physicist (born 1940)

📚 46 citations Person

2,096
views

80

Alessandro Volta

Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)

📚 30 citations Person

2,060
views

81

Linus Pauling

American scientist (1901–1994)

📚 70 citations Person

1,998
views

82

Alexander von Humboldt

Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)

📚 76 citations Person

1,958
views

83

Abdul Qadeer Khan

Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936–2021)

📚 8 citations Person

1,949
views

84

Max Born

German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)

📚 48 citations Person

1,924
views

85

William Luther Pierce

American neo-Nazi (1933–2002)

📚 9 citations Person

1,920
views

86

Benedetto Vigna

Italian physicist

📚 1 citation Person

1,897
views

87

Ronald McNair

American physicist, astronaut (1950-1986)

📚 8 citations Person

1,874
views

88

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist (1834–1907)

📚 34 citations Person

1,867
views

89

Richard D. Field

emeritus professor of physics

Person

1,865
views

90

Edward Witten

American theoretical physicist

📚 48 citations Person

1,776
views

91

Vikram Sarabhai

father of Indian space programme (1919–1971)

📚 7 citations Person

1,726
views

92

Thales

ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician

📚 40 citations Person

1,714
views

93

Robert H. Goddard

American physicist

📚 24 citations Person

1,703
views

94

David Hahn

United States marine (1976-2016)

📚 4 citations Person

1,694
views

95

James Watt

British engineer (1736–1819)

📚 37 citations Person

1,692
views

96

Georges Lemaître

Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)

Person

1,690
views

97

Jiankui He

Chinese biophysicist (1984-)

📚 7 citations Person

1,688
views

98

Omar Khayyám

Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)

📚 32 citations Person

1,685
views

99

Emmanuel Swedenborg

Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)

📚 33 citations Person

1,684
views

100

Jennifer Doudna

American biochemist

📚 69 citations Person

1,678
views