Trending Physicists in USA — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed physicists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Albert Einstein. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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8,789,015
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
503,885
views
views
2
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
405,386
views
views
3
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
359,195
views
views
4
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
302,640
views
views
5
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
274,269
views
views
6
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
271,756
views
views
7
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
269,533
views
views
8
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
268,832
views
views
9
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
242,624
views
views
10
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
183,196
views
views
11
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
181,383
views
views
12
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
168,958
views
views
13
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
162,509
views
views
14
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
154,874
views
views
15
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist and science communicator
148,231
views
views
16
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
142,129
views
views
17
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
131,847
views
views
18
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
128,108
views
views
19
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
126,075
views
views
20
Brian Cox
English physicist and musician
121,484
views
views
21
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
117,828
views
views
22
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
109,853
views
views
23
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
109,778
views
views
24
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
109,625
views
views
25
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
103,304
views
views
26
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
103,079
views
views
27
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
100,606
views
views
28
Bob Lazar
American businessman and ufologist
97,947
views
views
29
Valery Legasov
Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)
97,298
views
views
30
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
95,395
views
views
31
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
93,088
views
views
32
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
89,468
views
views
33
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
83,836
views
views
34
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
82,556
views
views
35
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
80,746
views
views
36
Sheldon Cooper
fictional character in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon
76,777
views
views
37
William Nicholas Hitchon
British nuclear physicist and participant in the Up documentary television series
75,369
views
views
38
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
66,558
views
views
39
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
63,353
views
views
40
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
61,964
views
views
41
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
61,229
views
views
42
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
61,145
views
views
43
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
61,131
views
views
44
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
60,944
views
views
45
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
60,202
views
views
46
Sasquatch
fictional character in Marvel Comics
56,795
views
views
47
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
55,926
views
views
48
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
54,922
views
views
49
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
54,360
views
views
50
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
54,066
views
views
51
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
52,015
views
views
52
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
51,610
views
views
53
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
49,425
views
views
54
Lex Luthor
fictional character in DC Comics
47,956
views
views
55
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
47,410
views
views
56
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
46,680
views
views
57
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
46,201
views
views
58
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
46,037
views
views
59
Hans Albert Einstein
Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
45,995
views
views
60
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
45,738
views
views
61
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
45,669
views
views
62
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
43,852
views
views
63
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
43,817
views
views
64
Rajnath Singh
Indian politician
43,163
views
views
65
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
41,952
views
views
66
Gennady Zyuganov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
41,094
views
views
67
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
40,378
views
views
68
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
40,329
views
views
69
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
38,668
views
views
70
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
37,884
views
views
71
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
36,526
views
views
72
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
36,422
views
views
73
David Hahn
United States marine (1976-2016)
36,173
views
views
74
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
35,788
views
views
75
Tom Lehrer
American musician (1928–2025)
34,783
views
views
76
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
33,591
views
views
77
Sabrina Pasterski
American theoretical physicist
33,323
views
views
78
Ada Yonath
Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate (1939–2026)
32,670
views
views
79
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
32,635
views
views
80
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
32,555
views
views
81
Frank Oppenheimer
American particle physicist (1912–1985)
32,387
views
views
82
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
31,965
views
views
83
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
31,907
views
views
84
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919–1971)
31,618
views
views
85
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
31,433
views
views
86
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
30,840
views
views
87
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
30,673
views
views
88
Cornelis Drebbel
Dutch inventor and submarine pioneer
30,636
views
views
89
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
30,458
views
views
90
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
30,299
views
views
91
Thales
ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
30,149
views
views
92
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
30,137
views
views
93
William Luther Pierce
American neo-Nazi (1933–2002)
30,039
views
views
94
Joseph John Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
29,396
views
views
95
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
29,163
views
views
96
Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)
28,583
views
views
97
Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.
1940s physicist who died of radiation poisoning (1921–1945)
28,439
views
views
98
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
28,438
views
views
99
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
28,043
views
views
100
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
28,011
views
views