Trending Physicists in USA — the 7 days to 25 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 25 October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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1,078,622
Total Views (the 7 days to 25 October 2026)
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
65,783
views
views
2
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
47,857
views
views
3
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
37,899
views
views
4
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
36,450
views
views
5
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
36,271
views
views
6
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
35,306
views
views
7
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
35,161
views
views
8
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
32,944
views
views
9
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
22,836
views
views
10
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
22,340
views
views
11
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
21,734
views
views
12
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
20,746
views
views
13
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
18,858
views
views
14
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
17,623
views
views
15
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
16,427
views
views
16
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
16,261
views
views
17
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
15,815
views
views
18
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
15,758
views
views
19
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
15,426
views
views
20
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
14,976
views
views
21
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
14,788
views
views
22
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
14,209
views
views
23
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
13,607
views
views
24
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
13,388
views
views
25
Ashoke Sen
Indian physicist
13,021
views
views
26
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
12,861
views
views
27
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
12,060
views
views
28
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
11,787
views
views
29
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
11,693
views
views
30
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
11,407
views
views
31
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
10,958
views
views
32
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
10,134
views
views
33
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
10,133
views
views
34
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
9,963
views
views
35
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
9,868
views
views
36
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
9,691
views
views
37
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
9,540
views
views
38
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
9,089
views
views
39
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
8,430
views
views
40
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
8,402
views
views
41
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
8,220
views
views
42
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
7,623
views
views
43
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
7,600
views
views
44
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
7,455
views
views
45
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
7,174
views
views
46
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
7,132
views
views
47
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
6,962
views
views
48
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
6,917
views
views
49
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
6,691
views
views
50
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
6,605
views
views
51
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
6,556
views
views
52
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
6,494
views
views
53
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
6,419
views
views
54
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
6,390
views
views
55
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
6,226
views
views
56
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
6,162
views
views
57
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
6,059
views
views
58
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
6,046
views
views
59
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
6,016
views
views
60
Francis Halzen
Belgian-American astrophysicist
5,966
views
views
61
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
5,783
views
views
62
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
5,764
views
views
63
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
5,661
views
views
64
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
5,560
views
views
65
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
5,528
views
views
66
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
5,513
views
views
67
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
5,230
views
views
68
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
5,038
views
views
69
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist and Nobel laureate (1933–2026)
4,982
views
views
70
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
4,978
views
views
71
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
4,948
views
views
72
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
4,799
views
views
73
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
4,722
views
views
74
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
4,635
views
views
75
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
4,546
views
views
76
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
4,545
views
views
77
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928–2025)
4,319
views
views
78
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
4,214
views
views
79
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
4,114
views
views
80
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
4,098
views
views
81
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
4,082
views
views
82
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
3,985
views
views
83
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
3,973
views
views
84
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
3,915
views
views
85
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
3,857
views
views
86
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
3,747
views
views
87
Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)
3,731
views
views
88
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
3,701
views
views
89
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
3,677
views
views
90
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
3,618
views
views
91
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
3,609
views
views
92
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
3,597
views
views
93
Andrey Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician (1903–1987)
3,540
views
views
94
Emmett Brown
fictional character from the American sci-fi film trilogy Back to the Future
3,534
views
views
95
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
3,500
views
views
96
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
3,498
views
views
97
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
3,477
views
views
98
Carlo Rovelli
Italian physicist
3,473
views
views
99
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
3,459
views
views
100
Joseph John Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
3,459
views
views