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Top 100 Academics in United States

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The most famous academics in United States right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Neil Armstrong	United States	Academics	90.8	0.8
#2	—	Noam Chomsky	United States	Academics	84.9	0.0
#3	—	Ralph Waldo Emerson	United States	Academics	83.2	10.0
#4	—	Paul Krugman	United States	Academics	79.5	14.6
#5	—	Larry Sanger	United States	Academics	79.2	18.4
#6	—	Sam Harris	United States	Academics	78.3	1.6
#7	—	Lex Fridman	United States	Academics	76.9	0.6
#8	—	Peter Schiff	United States	Academics	76.2	22.7
#9	—	Eric Weinstein	United States	Academics	75.8	4.6
#10	—	Ram Dass	United States	Academics	74.1	0.1
#11	—	Milton Friedman	United States	Academics	73.8	0.0
#12	—	J. Robert Oppenheimer	United States	Academics	73.7	0.0
#13	—	Scott Adams	United States	Academics	73.3	0.0
#14	—	Kurt Gödel	United States	Academics	73.2	15.0
#15	new	Charles Hoskinson	United States	Academics	73.1	7.0
#16	1	John Forbes Nash Jr.	United States	Academics	72.4	18.4
#17	1	Dario Amodei	United States	Academics	71.5	5.2
#18	1	William James	United States	Academics	71.0	0.0
#19	1	Wolfgang Pauli	United States	Academics	70.9	29.6
#20	1	Theodor W. Adorno	United States	Academics	70.8	15.0
#21	1	Paul Ekman	United States	Academics	69.8	0.7
#22	1	Arthur C. Brooks	United States	Academics	69.6	0.0
#23	new	Ramani Durvasula	United States	Academics	69.5	0.2
#24	2	Scott Galloway	United States	Academics	69.0	0.0
#25	2	Alexander Hamilton	United States	Academics	68.5	0.6
#26	2	Margaret Mead	United States	Academics	68.5	10.0
#27	2	Michael Rockefeller	United States	Academics	68.1	10.0
#28	2	Donald Knuth	United States	Academics	68.0	10.0
#29	2	John Dewey	United States	Academics	68.0	0.0
#30	2	Joseph Campbell	United States	Academics	67.8	0.0
#31	2	Paul Samuelson	United States	Academics	67.7	10.0
#32	2	Max Otte	United States	Academics	67.4	2.0
#33	2	B. F. Skinner	United States	Academics	66.7	10.0
#34	2	Ted Nelson	United States	Academics	66.2	0.0
#35	2	Gary Burton	United States	Academics	66.0	0.0
#36	2	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	United States	Academics	66.0	3.1
#37	2	Malcolm Nance	United States	Academics	65.9	0.0
#38	2	Alan Lomax	United States	Academics	65.8	0.2
#39	2	Henry Chesbrough	United States	Academics	65.6	3.0
#40	2	Dallas Willard	United States	Academics	65.5	2.5
#41	2	Ben Goertzel	United States	Academics	65.5	3.3
#42	2	Ted Kaczynski	United States	Academics	65.1	2.2
#43	2	Abraham Maslow	United States	Academics	64.8	0.0
#44	2	Jeremy Rifkin	United States	Academics	64.7	1.2
#45	2	Elinor Ostrom	United States	Academics	64.1	0.0
#46	2	Tom Carper	United States	Academics	63.9	2.6
#47	2	Judith Butler	United States	Academics	63.6	0.0
#48	2	Janet Yellen	United States	Academics	63.5	15.0
#49	2	Riane Eisler	United States	Academics	63.1	6.1
#50	2	Stanley Ann Dunham	United States	Academics	62.8	17.0
#51	2	Norman Borlaug	United States	Academics	62.4	1.5
#52	2	Eric Schmidt	United States	Academics	62.1	3.9
#53	2	Grace Hopper	United States	Academics	62.0	0.0
#54	2	Kshama Sawant	United States	Academics	62.0	0.0
#55	2	Jennifer Doudna	United States	Academics	62.0	0.4
#56	2	George Bernard Dantzig	United States	Academics	61.9	10.0
#57	2	Josiah Willard Gibbs	United States	Academics	61.8	5.3
#58	2	Alan Greenspan	United States	Academics	61.8	15.0
#59	2	John Rawls	United States	Academics	61.7	0.0
#60	2	Joseph Stiglitz	United States	Academics	61.7	0.0
#61	2	Howard Bloom	United States	Academics	61.7	0.0
#62	2	Leon M. Lederman	United States	Academics	61.7	8.4
#63	2	Herbert A. Simon	United States	Academics	61.6	15.2
#64	2	Gertrude B. Elion	United States	Academics	61.4	0.0
#65	2	Michio Kaku	United States	Academics	61.0	2.1
#66	2	John Michael Jumper	United States	Academics	61.0	10.0
#67	2	Dian Fossey	United States	Academics	60.9	0.6
#68	2	John C. Bogle	United States	Academics	60.8	12.6
#69	2	Meredith Whittaker	United States	Academics	60.8	12.3
#70	2	Sheldon Axler	United States	Academics	60.6	0.0
#71	2	Ludwig von Mises	United States	Academics	60.6	0.0
#72	2	Samuel P. Huntington	United States	Academics	60.5	0.0
#73	2	bell hooks	United States	Academics	60.5	3.0
#74	2	Bernie Madoff	United States	Academics	60.3	0.0
#75	2	Charles Sanders Peirce	United States	Academics	60.3	0.0
#76	2	DK Douglas Kelley	United States	Academics	60.3	0.0
#77	2	Ben Bernanke	United States	Academics	60.2	0.9
#78	2	DC David C. Lane	United States	Academics	60.2	0.0
#79	2	Zbigniew Brzezinski	United States	Academics	60.1	0.0
#80	2	Peter Drucker	United States	Academics	60.1	0.0
#81	2	Edmund Phelps	United States	Academics	60.0	10.0
#82	2	Norbert Wiener	United States	Academics	59.8	0.2
#83	2	Donna Shalala	United States	Academics	59.7	0.0
#84	2	Vint Cerf	United States	Academics	59.6	14.4
#85	2	Éamon de Valera	United States	Academics	59.5	0.0
#86	2	Ruth Benedict	United States	Academics	59.5	11.9
#87	2	Paul Volcker	United States	Academics	59.4	10.8
#88	2	Kenneth G. Wilson	United States	Academics	59.3	6.6
#89	2	Yoichiro Nambu	United States	Academics	59.2	1.2
#90	2	Claude Shannon	United States	Academics	59.1	0.0
#91	2	Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain	United States	Academics	59.1	5.9
#92	2	Linda B. Buck	United States	Academics	59.0	0.0
#93	2	Mark Adler	United States	Academics	59.0	1.6
#94	2	Sheryl Sandberg	United States	Academics	58.9	0.7
#95	2	Emily Greene Balch	United States	Academics	58.8	0.0
#96	2	Yitang Zhang	United States	Academics	58.8	10.0
#97	2	Willard Van Orman Quine	United States	Academics	58.8	15.2
#98	2	Jody Williams	United States	Academics	58.7	0.0
#99	2	Abhijit Banerjee	United States	Academics	58.4	11.0
#100	2	Marvin Minsky	United States	Academics	58.4	0.0

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