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The scientists gaining attention fastest right now — climbing in search, news, and social chatter, not just the ones already on top.

ScientistsFastest moversUpdated dailyHow fame is measured

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#92	—	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb	France	Scientists	69.2	31.6
#69	—	Wolfgang Pauli	United States	Scientists	70.9	29.6
#108	—	Peter Higgs	United Kingdom	Scientists	68.4	27.7
#94	—	Maria Goeppert Mayer	Germany	Scientists	69.0	25.8
#65	—	Julio Ríos Gallego	—	Scientists	71.1	25.0
#91	—	Vladimir Dovgan	—	Scientists	69.2	25.0
#121	—	Sally Ride	United States	Scientists	67.5	25.0
#165	—	Georges Cuvier	France	Scientists	65.3	25.0
#107	—	Jabir ibn Hayyan	—	Scientists	68.4	24.8
#123	—	Karl Ferdinand Braun	Germany	Scientists	67.4	23.2
#1	—	Albert Einstein Theoretical physicist, theory of relativity	Germany	Scientists	94.2	20.8
#128	—	Miguel Díaz-Canel	—	Scientists	67.1	18.9
#115	—	Eikō Harada	Japan	Scientists	67.9	18.8
#156	—	Karl Landsteiner	Austria	Scientists	65.5	18.7
#189	—	Karen Wetterhahn	United States	Scientists	64.5	17.9
#135	—	Muhammad al-Idrisi	Spain	Scientists	66.7	17.7
#179	—	Luis Walter Alvarez	United States	Scientists	64.8	17.4
#133	—	Max von Laue	Germany	Scientists	66.7	16.7
#162	—	Otto Stern	Germany	Scientists	65.3	16.6
#158	—	Dennis Gabor	—	Scientists	65.5	16.6
#168	—	Nicolas Appert	France	Scientists	65.2	16.4
#67	—	Jiankui He	China	Scientists	71.0	16.1
#31	—	Forrest Galante	United States	Scientists	75.8	16.1
#97	—	Pieter Zeeman	Netherlands	Scientists	68.8	16.1
#50	—	Irène Joliot-Curie	France	Scientists	72.5	16.1
#106	—	Amedeo Avogadro	Italy	Scientists	68.5	15.9
#40	—	Steve Chen	—	Scientists	74.3	15.8
#159	—	Hermann von Helmholtz	Germany	Scientists	65.4	15.8
#126	—	Evangelista Torricelli	Italy	Scientists	67.2	15.4
#96	—	Edmond Halley	United Kingdom	Scientists	68.9	15.4
#122	—	Gustav Kirchhoff	—	Scientists	67.5	15.2
#149	—	Chen-ning Yang	China	Scientists	65.9	15.0
#28	—	James Prescott Joule	United Kingdom	Scientists	77.1	15.0
#35	—	André-Marie Ampère	France	Scientists	74.5	15.0
#44	—	Andrei Sakharov	—	Scientists	73.1	15.0
#60	—	Jean-Baptiste Lamarck	France	Scientists	71.5	15.0
#78	1	Georg Ohm	Germany	Scientists	70.1	15.0
#89	—	William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	—	Scientists	69.4	15.0
#131	—	Gabriel Lippmann	France	Scientists	66.8	15.0
#147	—	Wilhelm Ostwald	Germany	Scientists	66.0	15.0
#169	—	Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit	—	Scientists	65.2	15.0
#174	—	Johannes Stark	Germany	Scientists	65.0	15.0
#183	—	Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac	France	Scientists	64.6	15.0
#194	—	Philip Melanchthon	Germany	Scientists	64.1	15.0
#68	—	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	India	Scientists	70.9	14.5
#55	—	Henri Becquerel	France	Scientists	72.0	14.3
#77	1	Svante Arrhenius	Sweden	Scientists	70.1	14.2
#71	—	Gustave Eiffel	France	Scientists	70.6	14.2
#49	—	Celâl Şengör	Turkey	Scientists	72.7	11.5
#26	—	J. Robert Oppenheimer	United States	Scientists	78.0	11.5
#172	—	Louis Daguerre	France	Scientists	65.0	11.5
#152	—	Emil Fischer	Germany	Scientists	65.8	11.4
#64	—	Aurélien Barrau	France	Scientists	71.2	11.4
#199	—	Thomas Kuhn	United States	Scientists	63.8	10.6
#88	—	Humphry Davy	United Kingdom	Scientists	69.5	10.4
#45	—	Karl Benz	Germany	Scientists	73.0	10.1
#6	—	Louis Pasteur	France	Scientists	88.1	10.0
#9	—	Niels Bohr	—	Scientists	85.2	10.0
#12	—	Carl Sagan	United States	Scientists	83.8	10.0
#14	—	James Watt	United Kingdom	Scientists	81.4	10.0
#30	—	Sonam Wangchuk	India	Scientists	76.3	10.0
#53	—	Mikhail Lomonosov	—	Scientists	72.2	10.0
#62	—	Steve Wozniak	United States	Scientists	71.4	10.0
#117	—	John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh	United Kingdom	Scientists	67.8	10.0
#124	—	Ernest Lawrence	United States	Scientists	67.4	10.0
#138	—	William Ramsay	United Kingdom	Scientists	66.5	10.0
#154	—	Merlin Sheldrake	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.6	10.0
#163	—	Gustav Ludwig Hertz	—	Scientists	65.3	10.0
#170	—	Jony Ive British designer, ex-Chief Design Officer at Apple	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.1	10.0
#38	—	Bret Weinstein	United States	Scientists	74.4	9.7
#27	—	Walter Lewin	Netherlands	Scientists	77.4	9.4
#33	—	Max Born	United Kingdom	Scientists	74.8	9.3
#129	—	Wilhelm Wien	Germany	Scientists	67.0	9.2
#74	8	Sergey Brin	United States	Scientists	70.3	9.2
#161	—	Justus von Liebig	Germany	Scientists	65.4	8.9
#110	—	Philipp Lenard	Germany	Scientists	68.4	8.4
#32	—	Oleg Artemyev	—	Scientists	74.9	8.3
#190	—	Ulugh Beg	—	Scientists	64.3	8.0
#103	—	Anders Celsius	Sweden	Scientists	68.5	7.9
#173	—	Satyendra Nath Bose	India	Scientists	65.0	7.1
#54	—	David Deutsch	United Kingdom	Scientists	72.1	6.9
#134	—	Pyotr Kapitsa	—	Scientists	66.7	6.8
#87	—	Mikhail Kalashnikov	—	Scientists	69.5	6.2
#15	—	James Clerk Maxwell	United Kingdom	Scientists	81.4	6.1
#120	—	Joey Florez	United States	Scientists	67.7	5.7
#140	—	Vince Ebert	Germany	Scientists	66.3	5.6
#86	—	Phil Mason	—	Scientists	69.6	5.3
#132	—	Boris Nemtsov	—	Scientists	66.8	5.3
#29	—	Guglielmo Marconi	Italy	Scientists	76.5	5.3
#11	—	Osama bin Laden	—	Scientists	84.3	5.1
#114	—	James Chadwick	United Kingdom	Scientists	67.9	4.7
#2	—	Galileo Galilei	Italy	Scientists	92.0	4.7
#101	—	Zaghloul El-Naggar	Egypt	Scientists	68.7	4.6
#18	—	Richard Feynman	United States	Scientists	80.8	4.5
#37	—	Tycho Brahe	Sweden	Scientists	74.4	4.5
#105	—	Lev Landau	—	Scientists	68.5	4.4
#127	—	Ludwig Boltzmann	Austria	Scientists	67.1	4.4
#57	—	Grant Imahara	United States	Scientists	71.8	3.9
#46	—	Sōichi Noguchi	Japan	Scientists	73.0	3.8
#81	1	Ibn al-Haytham	—	Scientists	69.9	3.4