Trending Physicists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed physicists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein.
100
Ranked
2,096,957
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879β1955)
121,007
views
views
2
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904β1967)
106,888
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942β2018)
85,101
views
views
4
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856β1943)
79,673
views
views
5
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
70,610
views
views
6
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867β1934)
63,981
views
views
7
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452β1519)
62,151
views
views
8
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642β1727)
60,986
views
views
9
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
45,458
views
views
10
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
44,296
views
views
11
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912β1977)
42,229
views
views
12
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918β1988)
41,061
views
views
13
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
40,797
views
views
14
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
39,294
views
views
15
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
37,128
views
views
16
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847β1931)
37,115
views
views
17
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
31,990
views
views
18
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934β1996)
30,974
views
views
19
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564β1642)
29,546
views
views
20
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908β2003)
28,461
views
views
21
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901β1976)
27,114
views
views
22
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847β1922)
25,729
views
views
23
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
25,477
views
views
24
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
24,699
views
views
25
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
23,384
views
views
26
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
23,312
views
views
27
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
23,028
views
views
28
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
21,750
views
views
29
RenΓ© Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596β1650)
21,732
views
views
30
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 β c. 212 BC)
21,689
views
views
31
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
21,680
views
views
32
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917β2008)
21,239
views
views
33
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707β1783)
20,945
views
views
34
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
20,091
views
views
35
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
19,609
views
views
36
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885β1962)
17,564
views
views
37
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749β1832)
17,507
views
views
38
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951β2012)
17,127
views
views
39
Kurt GΓΆdel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906β1978)
16,549
views
views
40
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
14,643
views
views
41
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909β1966)
14,497
views
views
42
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920β1958)
14,239
views
views
43
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
14,236
views
views
44
Erwin SchrΓΆdinger
Austrian physicist (1887β1961)
13,837
views
views
45
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
13,735
views
views
46
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980β1037)
13,015
views
views
47
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791β1867)
12,995
views
views
48
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
12,466
views
views
49
Enrico Fermi
ItalianβAmerican physicist (1901β1954)
12,227
views
views
50
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906β1992)
12,220
views
views
51
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888β1970)
12,213
views
views
52
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
12,054
views
views
53
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777β1855)
11,759
views
views
54
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646β1716)
11,722
views
views
55
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
11,611
views
views
56
Mileva MariΔ
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875β1948)
11,466
views
views
57
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
11,050
views
views
58
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831β1879)
10,888
views
views
59
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
10,872
views
views
60
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
10,723
views
views
61
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571β1630)
10,627
views
views
62
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
10,605
views
views
63
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
10,583
views
views
64
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
10,333
views
views
65
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928β2025)
10,062
views
views
66
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868β1934)
9,992
views
views
67
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882β1970)
9,927
views
views
68
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
9,515
views
views
69
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930β2002)
9,351
views
views
70
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
9,118
views
views
71
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902β1984)
8,941
views
views
72
Frank Oppenheimer
American particle physicist (1912β1985)
8,919
views
views
73
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 β 1703)
8,696
views
views
74
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933β2002)
8,678
views
views
75
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
8,586
views
views
76
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897β1956)
8,344
views
views
77
Raj Koothrappali
fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
8,322
views
views
78
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859β1906)
8,273
views
views
79
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901β1994)
8,222
views
views
80
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871β1937)
8,147
views
views
81
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
8,054
views
views
82
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919β1971)
8,013
views
views
83
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
7,634
views
views
84
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
7,576
views
views
85
Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901β1958)
7,523
views
views
86
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor and painter (1791β1872)
7,293
views
views
87
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834β1907)
7,230
views
views
88
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743β1794)
7,218
views
views
89
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862β1943)
7,015
views
views
90
Pavel Jungwirth
Czech chemist and academic (1966β2026)
6,994
views
views
91
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
6,819
views
views
92
Anatoli Bugorski
Russian scientist involved in an accident with a particle accelerator
6,752
views
views
93
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
6,688
views
views
94
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist (1977β2025)
6,674
views
views
95
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
6,659
views
views
96
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844β1906)
6,530
views
views
97
V. Balakrishnan
Indian theoretical physicist
6,491
views
views
98
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
6,459
views
views
99
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928β2025)
6,351
views
views
100
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882β1935)
6,304
views
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