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Trending Scientists on Fame.am — sorted by momentum score. Snapshot: 2026-06-02. Top: Jérôme Lalande.

Category: Scientists
Sorted by: Momentum score
Top person: Jérôme Lalande
Snapshot date: 2026-06-02

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#145	new	Jérôme Lalande	France	Scientists	22.9	35.0
#14	new	Leonhard Euler	—	Scientists	54.9	27.3
#200	new	Rosalyn Sussman Yalow	United States	Scientists	17.7	19.5
#120	new	Bartolomeo Cristofori	—	Scientists	26.2	18.8
#94	new	Léon Foucault	France	Scientists	30.4	18.6
#48	new	John Stith Pemberton	United States	Scientists	40.2	16.0
#82	new	John Logie Baird	United Kingdom	Scientists	32.4	15.0
#168	new	Nicolas Appert	France	Scientists	20.4	14.9
#11	new	Carl Linnaeus	Sweden	Scientists	56.1	14.4
#85	new	Hermann Minkowski	—	Scientists	31.5	14.2
#70	new	Peter Higgs	United Kingdom	Scientists	33.6	13.8
#184	new	Milutin Milanković	—	Scientists	19.8	13.6
#51	new	Joan Clarke	United Kingdom	Scientists	39.3	13.6
#26	new	Roger Penrose	United Kingdom	Scientists	49.5	13.2
#181	new	Jean Baptiste Perrin	France	Scientists	19.9	13.2
#21	new	John Forbes Nash Jr.	United States	Scientists	52.5	13.0
#1	new	Elon Musk CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, X. Founder of Neuralink, xAI	United States	Founders	99.0	12.9
#53	new	Tu Youyou	China	Scientists	38.7	12.9
#33	new	Alexander Grothendieck	France	Scientists	45.3	12.6
#28	new	Jimmy Wales	United States	Scientists	47.3	12.3
#34	new	Paul Dirac	United Kingdom	Scientists	45.2	11.9
#12	new	Carl Friedrich Gauss	—	Scientists	56.0	11.9
#24	new	Louis Pasteur	France	Scientists	51.4	11.2
#9	new	Archimedes	—	Scientists	57.9	11.2
#37	new	James Watt	United Kingdom	Scientists	42.7	11.1
#6	new	Stephen Hawking	United Kingdom	Scientists	63.6	10.8
#136	new	Jacques Monod	France	Scientists	24.1	10.8
#31	new	Charles Babbage	—	Scientists	46.1	10.7
#5	new	Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance polymath	—	Historical Figures	67.2	10.6
#18	new	Henry Ford	United States	Scientists	53.9	10.4
#7	new	Alan Turing	United Kingdom	Scientists	60.4	10.3
#164	new	Françoise Barré-Sinoussi	France	Scientists	21.1	10.1
#15	new	Ada Lovelace	—	Scientists	54.6	10.1
#2	new	Albert Einstein Theoretical physicist, theory of relativity	—	Historical Figures	82.7	10.0
#16	new	Carl Sagan	United States	Scientists	54.3	10.0
#25	new	Tim Berners-Lee	United Kingdom	Scientists	50.3	10.0
#30	new	Enrico Fermi	—	Scientists	46.5	10.0
#86	new	John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh	—	Scientists	31.4	10.0
#122	new	Inge Lehmann	—	Scientists	25.9	10.0
#40	new	Rachel Carson	United States	Scientists	42.3	9.6
#62	new	Adolphe Sax	—	Scientists	34.4	9.2
#144	new	Frank P. Ramsey	United Kingdom	Scientists	23.0	9.0
#27	new	Paul Erdős	—	Scientists	48.4	8.5
#60	new	Yoshinori Ohsumi	Japan	Scientists	35.5	8.1
#153	new	Laura Bassi	—	Scientists	21.8	8.0
#101	new	Johann Bernoulli	Switzerland	Scientists	29.1	7.8
#142	new	Bhāskara II	—	Scientists	23.4	7.5
#143	new	Karl Landsteiner	—	Scientists	23.3	7.3
#132	new	Richard Dedekind	—	Scientists	24.3	6.4
#45	new	Rudolf Diesel	—	Scientists	40.7	6.3
#22	new	Richard Dawkins	United Kingdom	Scientists	52.4	5.6
#96	new	Arthur Eddington	United Kingdom	Scientists	30.1	5.5
#58	new	Samuel Morse	United States	Scientists	36.8	5.3
#46	new	Konrad Zuse	Germany	Scientists	40.5	5.2
#3	new	J. Robert Oppenheimer Acting	United States	Scientists	72.3	5.1
#76	new	Paul Langevin	France	Scientists	32.8	5.0
#176	new	Albert A. Michelson	United States	Scientists	20.2	4.9
#64	new	Igor Sikorsky	—	Scientists	34.1	4.7
#138	new	François Arago	France	Scientists	23.9	4.6
#100	new	Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit	—	Scientists	29.2	4.4
#165	new	Christian Doppler	—	Scientists	20.9	4.4
#191	new	Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot	France	Scientists	19.2	4.3
#126	new	George Gamow	—	Scientists	25.6	4.2
#98	new	Ja'far al-Sadiq	—	Scientists	29.9	4.2
#130	new	Svante Arrhenius	Sweden	Scientists	24.7	4.1
#151	new	Frank Whittle	United Kingdom	Scientists	21.9	4.1
#20	new	Richard Feynman	United States	Scientists	53.1	4.0
#55	new	John McCarthy	United States	Scientists	38.3	3.9
#67	new	Norbert Wiener	United States	Scientists	33.8	3.6
#92	new	Hans Bethe	—	Scientists	30.5	3.3
#154	new	Ilya Prigogine	—	Scientists	21.8	3.2
#166	new	Anders Celsius	Sweden	Scientists	20.6	2.9
#137	new	Jacob Bernoulli	Switzerland	Scientists	24.0	2.9
#108	new	Luca Pacioli	—	Scientists	28.1	2.8
#61	new	Pierre-Simon Laplace	France	Scientists	34.7	2.8
#118	new	Jocelyn Bell Burnell	United Kingdom	Scientists	26.8	2.8
#171	new	Nikolaus Otto	—	Scientists	20.3	2.8
#174	new	Richard Owen	—	Scientists	20.3	2.7
#175	new	Niels Henrik Abel	Norway	Scientists	20.2	2.6
#183	new	Karl Weierstrass	—	Scientists	19.9	2.2
#95	new	Ibn al-Haytham	—	Scientists	30.1	1.9
#52	new	Antoine Lavoisier	France	Scientists	38.8	1.8
#150	new	George Stephenson	—	Scientists	22.2	1.8
#88	new	C. V. Raman	India	Scientists	31.0	1.7
#123	new	Jagadish Chandra Bose	—	Scientists	25.7	1.7
#19	new	Nicolaus Copernicus	—	Scientists	53.4	1.7
#156	new	Humphry Davy	—	Scientists	21.7	1.5
#129	new	Pierre de Fermat	France	Scientists	24.9	1.5
#78	new	Emmy Noether	—	Scientists	32.6	1.4
#180	new	B Brahmagupta	India	Scientists	20.0	1.4
#134	new	Stanislaw Ulam	United States	Scientists	24.2	1.4
#125	new	Joseph Fourier	France	Scientists	25.7	1.4
#115	new	Edwin Hubble	United States	Scientists	26.9	1.4
#127	new	Wolfgang Pauli	United States	Scientists	25.3	1.3
#84	new	Karl Benz	—	Scientists	31.5	1.3
#148	new	Benoit Mandelbrot	—	Scientists	22.4	1.3
#54	new	Alfred Nobel	Sweden	Scientists	38.6	1.3
#29	new	Srinivasa Ramanujan	—	Scientists	46.8	1.3
#104	new	Georges Lemaître	—	Scientists	28.9	1.2
#114	new	Aryabhata	—	Scientists	26.9	1.2