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ScientistsGaining attentionUpdated dailyHow fame is measured

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#13	—	Roald Amundsen	Norway	Scientists	89.6	15.1
#48	—	Bret Weinstein	United States	Scientists	74.4	9.7
#50	—	Wojciech Cejrowski	—	Scientists	74.1	15.0
#52	—	Andrei Sakharov	—	Scientists	73.1	15.0
#92	—	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb	France	Scientists	69.2	31.6
#94	—	Maria Goeppert Mayer	Germany	Scientists	69.0	25.8
#98	—	Aryabhata	India	Scientists	68.8	6.7
#105	—	Amedeo Avogadro	Italy	Scientists	68.5	15.9
#106	—	Amyr Klink	Brazil	Scientists	68.5	24.8
#107	—	Jabir ibn Hayyan	—	Scientists	68.4	24.8
#108	—	Peter Higgs	United Kingdom	Scientists	68.4	27.7
#120	1	Joey Florez	United States	Scientists	67.7	5.7
#121	1	Sally Ride	United States	Scientists	67.5	25.0
#122	1	Gustav Kirchhoff	—	Scientists	67.5	15.2
#124	1	Karl Ferdinand Braun	Germany	Scientists	67.4	23.2
#127	1	Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim	—	Scientists	67.3	24.3
#128	1	Alexander Borodin	—	Scientists	67.2	17.0
#132	—	Max von Laue	Germany	Scientists	66.7	16.7
#133	—	Henry Cavendish	France	Scientists	66.7	14.5
#134	—	Pyotr Kapitsa	—	Scientists	66.7	6.8
#135	—	Muhammad al-Idrisi	Spain	Scientists	66.7	17.7
#147	—	Chen-ning Yang	China	Scientists	65.9	15.0
#148	—	Emil Fischer	Germany	Scientists	65.8	11.4
#149	—	Robert Falcon Scott	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.7	14.7
#151	—	Dennis Gabor	—	Scientists	65.5	16.6
#152	—	Hermann von Helmholtz	Germany	Scientists	65.4	15.8
#154	—	Justus von Liebig	Germany	Scientists	65.4	8.9
#155	—	Otto Stern	Germany	Scientists	65.3	16.6
#161	—	Vitus Bering	—	Scientists	65.2	19.1
#165	—	Satyendra Nath Bose	India	Scientists	65.0	7.1
#166	—	Pedro Álvares Cabral	Portugal	Scientists	65.0	15.0
#168	—	John Herschel	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.0	4.1
#169	—	Katherine Johnson	United States	Scientists	64.9	8.7
#174	—	Luis Walter Alvarez	United States	Scientists	64.8	17.4
#179	—	Pope Sylvester II	France	Scientists	64.6	13.5
#191	—	Thomas Kuhn	United States	Scientists	63.8	10.6
#196	—	Gottlieb Daimler	Germany	Scientists	63.6	22.0
#197	—	Willem Barentsz	Netherlands	Scientists	63.5	16.5
#199	—	David Gross	United States	Scientists	63.4	15.0
#200	—	Walther Nernst	—	Scientists	63.4	5.3