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Rising Scientists on Fame.am — filtered by RISING, BREAKOUT, or RESURGING trend. Snapshot: 2026-06-02. Top: J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Category: Scientists
Filter: RISING, BREAKOUT, RESURGING trend
Top person: J. Robert Oppenheimer
Snapshot date: 2026-06-02

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#3	new	J. Robert Oppenheimer Acting	United States	Scientists	72.3	5.1
#11	new	Carl Linnaeus	Sweden	Scientists	56.1	14.4
#14	new	Leonhard Euler	—	Scientists	54.9	27.3
#21	new	John Forbes Nash Jr.	United States	Scientists	52.5	13.0
#26	new	Roger Penrose	United Kingdom	Scientists	49.5	13.2
#27	new	Paul Erdős	—	Scientists	48.4	8.5
#34	new	Paul Dirac	United Kingdom	Scientists	45.2	11.9
#40	new	Rachel Carson	United States	Scientists	42.3	9.6
#45	new	Rudolf Diesel	—	Scientists	40.7	6.3
#48	new	John Stith Pemberton	United States	Scientists	40.2	16.0
#51	new	Joan Clarke	United Kingdom	Scientists	39.3	13.6
#58	new	Samuel Morse	United States	Scientists	36.8	5.3
#60	new	Yoshinori Ohsumi	Japan	Scientists	35.5	8.1
#62	new	Adolphe Sax	—	Scientists	34.4	9.2
#70	new	Peter Higgs	United Kingdom	Scientists	33.6	13.8
#82	new	John Logie Baird	United Kingdom	Scientists	32.4	15.0
#85	new	Hermann Minkowski	—	Scientists	31.5	14.2
#86	new	John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh	—	Scientists	31.4	10.0
#94	new	Léon Foucault	France	Scientists	30.4	18.6
#96	new	Arthur Eddington	United Kingdom	Scientists	30.1	5.5
#100	new	Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit	—	Scientists	29.2	4.4
#101	new	Johann Bernoulli	Switzerland	Scientists	29.1	7.8
#120	new	Bartolomeo Cristofori	—	Scientists	26.2	18.8
#130	new	Svante Arrhenius	Sweden	Scientists	24.7	4.1
#132	new	Richard Dedekind	—	Scientists	24.3	6.4
#136	new	Jacques Monod	France	Scientists	24.1	10.8
#138	new	François Arago	France	Scientists	23.9	4.6
#142	new	Bhāskara II	—	Scientists	23.4	7.5
#143	new	Karl Landsteiner	—	Scientists	23.3	7.3
#144	new	Frank P. Ramsey	United Kingdom	Scientists	23.0	9.0
#145	new	Jérôme Lalande	France	Scientists	22.9	35.0
#151	new	Frank Whittle	United Kingdom	Scientists	21.9	4.1
#165	new	Christian Doppler	—	Scientists	20.9	4.4
#168	new	Nicolas Appert	France	Scientists	20.4	14.9
#176	new	Albert A. Michelson	United States	Scientists	20.2	4.9
#181	new	Jean Baptiste Perrin	France	Scientists	19.9	13.2
#184	new	Milutin Milanković	—	Scientists	19.8	13.6
#191	new	Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot	France	Scientists	19.2	4.3
#200	new	Rosalyn Sussman Yalow	United States	Scientists	17.7	19.5