Trending Physicists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed physicists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Sally Ride.
100
Ranked
1,608,530
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
134,472
views
views
2
Albert Einstein
german-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
87,539
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
57,111
views
views
4
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
52,196
views
views
5
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
49,843
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
47,880
views
views
7
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
45,661
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727)
45,125
views
views
9
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" (1904β1967)
43,224
views
views
10
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
38,656
views
views
11
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
33,880
views
views
12
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
33,022
views
views
13
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
31,858
views
views
14
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
30,167
views
views
15
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
27,769
views
views
16
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
27,588
views
views
17
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
25,960
views
views
18
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
25,778
views
views
19
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
25,361
views
views
20
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
24,089
views
views
21
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
22,937
views
views
22
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
22,256
views
views
23
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
20,893
views
views
24
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
19,188
views
views
25
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
17,817
views
views
26
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
17,170
views
views
27
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
16,740
views
views
28
Michelle Thaller
American astronomer
15,935
views
views
29
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
15,565
views
views
30
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
15,305
views
views
31
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
14,783
views
views
32
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
14,476
views
views
33
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
14,427
views
views
34
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
14,276
views
views
35
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
12,900
views
views
36
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
12,487
views
views
37
Steven Hawley
American astronaut
12,251
views
views
38
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
12,204
views
views
39
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
11,190
views
views
40
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
10,390
views
views
41
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
10,200
views
views
42
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
10,197
views
views
43
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
10,096
views
views
44
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
9,972
views
views
45
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
9,705
views
views
46
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909β1966)
9,599
views
views
47
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
9,464
views
views
48
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
9,437
views
views
49
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
9,419
views
views
50
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930β2002)
9,412
views
views
51
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
9,318
views
views
52
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
9,160
views
views
53
Benedetto Vigna
Italian physicist
8,616
views
views
54
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
8,478
views
views
55
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
8,430
views
views
56
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
8,355
views
views
57
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
8,214
views
views
58
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
8,048
views
views
59
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
7,911
views
views
60
Tom Lehrer
American musician and mathematician (1928β2025)
7,818
views
views
61
Kurt GΓΆdel
Mexico-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
7,749
views
views
62
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
7,619
views
views
63
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
7,489
views
views
64
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
6,878
views
views
65
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
6,732
views
views
66
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
6,703
views
views
67
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
6,604
views
views
68
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
6,586
views
views
69
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
6,531
views
views
70
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
6,265
views
views
71
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist (1977β2025)
6,234
views
views
72
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor and painter (1791β1872)
6,121
views
views
73
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
6,083
views
views
74
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
6,002
views
views
75
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
5,967
views
views
76
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
5,839
views
views
77
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871β1937)
5,835
views
views
78
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
5,642
views
views
79
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882β1935)
5,630
views
views
80
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
5,536
views
views
81
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936β2021)
5,526
views
views
82
Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist (1926-2020)
5,458
views
views
83
Jared Kaplan
artificial intelligence researcher
5,305
views
views
84
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
5,304
views
views
85
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
5,159
views
views
86
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
5,153
views
views
87
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
5,135
views
views
88
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
5,068
views
views
89
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933β2002)
5,012
views
views
90
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
4,998
views
views
91
Harold E. Puthoff
American physicist
4,870
views
views
92
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
4,762
views
views
93
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
4,755
views
views
94
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
4,709
views
views
95
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
4,669
views
views
96
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928β2025)
4,546
views
views
97
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919β1971)
4,502
views
views
98
Leonard Susskind
American physicist
4,460
views
views
99
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
4,446
views
views
100
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
4,430
views
views
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