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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
#108	—	Peter Higgs	United Kingdom	Scientists	68.4	27.7
#94	—	Maria Goeppert Mayer	Germany	Scientists	69.0	25.8
#121	1	Sally Ride	United States	Scientists	67.5	25.0
#107	—	Jabir ibn Hayyan	—	Scientists	68.4	24.8
#106	—	Amyr Klink	Brazil	Scientists	68.5	24.8
#127	1	Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim	—	Scientists	67.3	24.3
#124	1	Karl Ferdinand Braun	Germany	Scientists	67.4	23.2
#196	—	Gottlieb Daimler	Germany	Scientists	63.6	22.0
#161	—	Vitus Bering	—	Scientists	65.2	19.1
#135	—	Muhammad al-Idrisi	Spain	Scientists	66.7	17.7
#174	—	Luis Walter Alvarez	United States	Scientists	64.8	17.4
#128	1	Alexander Borodin	—	Scientists	67.2	17.0
#132	—	Max von Laue	Germany	Scientists	66.7	16.7
#155	—	Otto Stern	Germany	Scientists	65.3	16.6
#151	—	Dennis Gabor	—	Scientists	65.5	16.6
#197	—	Willem Barentsz	Netherlands	Scientists	63.5	16.5
#159	—	Nicolas Appert	France	Scientists	65.2	16.4
#96	—	Pieter Zeeman	Netherlands	Scientists	68.8	16.1
#57	—	Irène Joliot-Curie	France	Scientists	72.5	16.1
#105	—	Amedeo Avogadro	Italy	Scientists	68.5	15.9
#152	—	Hermann von Helmholtz	Germany	Scientists	65.4	15.8
#122	1	Gustav Kirchhoff	—	Scientists	67.5	15.2
#13	—	Roald Amundsen	Norway	Scientists	89.6	15.1
#147	—	Chen-ning Yang	China	Scientists	65.9	15.0
#40	—	James Prescott Joule	United Kingdom	Scientists	77.5	15.0
#46	—	André-Marie Ampère	France	Scientists	74.5	15.0
#50	—	Wojciech Cejrowski	—	Scientists	74.1	15.0
#52	—	Andrei Sakharov	—	Scientists	73.1	15.0
#66	—	Jean-Baptiste Lamarck	France	Scientists	71.5	15.0
#78	—	Georg Ohm	Germany	Scientists	70.1	15.0
#90	—	William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	—	Scientists	69.4	15.0
#131	—	Gabriel Lippmann	France	Scientists	66.8	15.0
#146	—	Wilhelm Ostwald	Germany	Scientists	66.0	15.0
#160	—	Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit	—	Scientists	65.2	15.0
#166	—	Pedro Álvares Cabral	Portugal	Scientists	65.0	15.0
#167	—	Johannes Stark	Germany	Scientists	65.0	15.0
#178	—	Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac	France	Scientists	64.6	15.0
#187	—	Philip Melanchthon	Germany	Scientists	64.1	15.0
#199	—	David Gross	United States	Scientists	63.4	15.0
#149	—	Robert Falcon Scott	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.7	14.7
#133	—	Henry Cavendish	France	Scientists	66.7	14.5
#115	13	Ludwig Boltzmann	Austria	Scientists	68.0	14.4
#61	—	Henri Becquerel	France	Scientists	72.0	14.3
#77	—	Svante Arrhenius	Sweden	Scientists	70.1	14.2
#38	—	Edmund Hillary	New Zealand	Scientists	78.8	13.5
#179	—	Pope Sylvester II	France	Scientists	64.6	13.5
#80	—	Abel Tasman	Netherlands	Scientists	69.9	11.5
#148	—	Emil Fischer	Germany	Scientists	65.8	11.4
#69	—	Leif Erikson	—	Scientists	71.1	10.7
#191	—	Thomas Kuhn	United States	Scientists	63.8	10.6
#88	—	Humphry Davy	United Kingdom	Scientists	69.5	10.4
#53	—	Karl Benz	Germany	Scientists	73.0	10.1
#65	—	Paracelsus	Switzerland	Scientists	71.7	10.1
#1	—	Albert Einstein Theoretical physicist, theory of relativity	Germany	Scientists	98.6	10.0
#2	—	Aristotle	—	Scientists	98.3	10.0
#9	—	Louis Pasteur	France	Scientists	93.0	10.0
#14	—	James Cook	United Kingdom	Scientists	89.6	10.0
#17	—	Vasco da Gama	Portugal	Scientists	88.7	10.0
#20	—	James Watt	United Kingdom	Scientists	83.6	10.0
#32	—	Alexander von Humboldt	—	Scientists	79.7	10.0
#60	—	Mikhail Lomonosov	—	Scientists	72.2	10.0
#67	—	Steve Wozniak	United States	Scientists	71.4	10.0
#117	1	John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh	United Kingdom	Scientists	67.8	10.0
#125	1	Ernest Lawrence	United States	Scientists	67.4	10.0
#139	—	William Ramsay	United Kingdom	Scientists	66.5	10.0
#163	—	Jony Ive British designer, ex-Chief Design Officer at Apple	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.1	10.0
#48	—	Bret Weinstein	United States	Scientists	74.4	9.7
#39	—	Walter Lewin	Netherlands	Scientists	78.0	9.4
#45	—	Max Born	United Kingdom	Scientists	74.8	9.3
#129	—	Wilhelm Wien	Germany	Scientists	67.0	9.2
#154	—	Justus von Liebig	Germany	Scientists	65.4	8.9
#169	—	Katherine Johnson	United States	Scientists	64.9	8.7
#110	—	Philipp Lenard	Germany	Scientists	68.4	8.4
#97	—	Tenzing Norgay	—	Scientists	68.8	8.2
#182	—	Ulugh Beg	—	Scientists	64.3	8.0
#102	—	Anders Celsius	Sweden	Scientists	68.5	7.9
#165	—	Satyendra Nath Bose	India	Scientists	65.0	7.1
#134	—	Pyotr Kapitsa	—	Scientists	66.7	6.8
#98	—	Aryabhata	India	Scientists	68.8	6.7
#119	1	Ophelia Pastrana	—	Scientists	67.7	6.5
#87	—	Mikhail Kalashnikov	—	Scientists	69.5	6.2
#120	1	Joey Florez	United States	Scientists	67.7	5.7
#44	—	Guglielmo Marconi	Italy	Scientists	76.6	5.3
#200	—	Walther Nernst	—	Scientists	63.4	5.3
#189	—	Richard E. Grant	United Kingdom	Scientists	64.0	4.9
#11	—	Ferdinand Magellan	Portugal	Scientists	90.3	4.9
#101	—	Dolph Lundgren	Sweden	Scientists	68.5	4.6
#47	—	Tycho Brahe	Sweden	Scientists	74.4	4.5
#104	—	Lev Landau	—	Scientists	68.5	4.4
#56	—	Ed Stafford	United Kingdom	Scientists	72.7	4.2
#168	—	John Herschel	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.0	4.1
#157	—	Thor Heyerdahl	Norway	Scientists	65.3	3.8
#143	—	Tu Youyou	China	Scientists	66.1	3.0
#29	—	Wilhelm Röntgen	Germany	Scientists	81.1	3.0
#144	—	William Bradford Shockley	United Kingdom	Scientists	66.1	3.0
#27	—	Ulysses S. Grant	United States	Scientists	81.8	2.4
#63	—	Hendrik Lorentz	Netherlands	Scientists	71.9	2.4
#130	—	Samuel Morse	United States	Scientists	67.0	2.4
#54	—	Sean M. Carroll	United States	Scientists	72.9	2.3