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Top 100 Scientists in United States

The most publicly visible scientists in United States.

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The most famous scientists 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	—	Thomas Edison	United States	Scientists	94.1	0.0
#2	—	Theodore Roosevelt	United States	Scientists	88.2	1.6
#3	—	Carl Sagan	United States	Scientists	82.1	0.0
#4	—	Ulysses S. Grant	United States	Scientists	81.8	2.4
#5	—	Alexander Graham Bell	United States	Scientists	79.3	0.0
#6	—	Richard Feynman	United States	Scientists	78.9	0.0
#7	—	Bret Weinstein	United States	Scientists	74.4	9.7
#8	—	Sean M. Carroll	United States	Scientists	72.9	2.3
#9	—	Steve Wozniak	United States	Scientists	71.4	10.0
#10	—	Lawrence M. Krauss	United States	Scientists	70.1	2.0
#11	—	Paul Stamets	United States	Scientists	69.6	0.0
#12	—	James Watson	United States	Scientists	69.0	1.7
#13	—	Bruce Lipton	United States	Scientists	68.9	0.2
#14	—	Linus Pauling	United States	Scientists	68.6	0.1
#15	—	James Tour	United States	Scientists	68.1	0.1
#16	—	Joey Florez	United States	Scientists	67.7	5.7
#17	—	Sally Ride	United States	Scientists	67.5	25.0
#18	—	Ernest Lawrence	United States	Scientists	67.4	10.0
#19	—	Robert Andrews Millikan	United States	Scientists	67.3	1.9
#20	—	Samuel Morse	United States	Scientists	67.0	2.4
#21	—	Edwin Hubble	United States	Scientists	66.7	0.0
#22	—	Jeri Ellsworth	United States	Scientists	66.7	1.6
#23	—	Sergey Brin	United States	Scientists	66.4	0.0
#24	—	Albert A. Michelson	United States	Scientists	66.0	0.0
#25	—	Phil Plait	United States	Scientists	65.1	0.9
#26	—	Katherine Johnson	United States	Scientists	64.9	8.7
#27	—	Luis Walter Alvarez	United States	Scientists	64.8	17.4
#28	—	John Bardeen	United States	Scientists	64.1	0.0
#29	—	Steven Weinberg	United States	Scientists	64.1	0.0
#30	—	Charles Lindbergh	United States	Scientists	64.1	0.0
#31	—	Cut Chemist	United States	Scientists	63.9	0.0
#32	—	Thomas Kuhn	United States	Scientists	63.8	10.6
#33	—	PZ Myers	United States	Scientists	63.8	0.0
#34	—	Murray Gell-Mann	United States	Scientists	63.5	0.1
#35	—	David Gross	United States	Scientists	63.4	15.0
#36	—	Jack Kilby	United States	Scientists	63.4	15.0
#37	—	Glenn T. Seaborg	United States	Scientists	63.3	15.0
#38	—	Barbara McClintock	United States	Scientists	63.2	0.0
#39	—	David Brin	United States	Scientists	63.2	0.0
#40	—	Neil deGrasse Tyson	United States	Scientists	63.2	1.4
#41	—	Paul Allen	United States	Scientists	63.0	0.0
#42	—	Har Gobind Khorana	United States	Scientists	62.5	13.9
#43	—	Alan Hale	United States	Scientists	62.2	10.0
#44	—	Rosalyn Sussman Yalow	United States	Scientists	62.0	1.5
#45	—	Arthur Compton	United States	Scientists	62.0	0.0
#46	—	Robert Woodrow Wilson	United States	Scientists	61.7	2.3
#47	—	George Washington Carver	United States	Scientists	61.7	15.4
#48	—	Frank Wilczek	United States	Scientists	61.7	15.3
#49	—	James Franck	United States	Scientists	61.6	0.0
#50	—	Isidor Isaac Rabi	United States	Scientists	61.5	0.0
#51	—	Douglas Engelbart	United States	Scientists	61.5	5.2
#52	—	Robert H. Goddard	United States	Scientists	61.4	0.0
#53	—	Charles H. Townes	United States	Scientists	61.2	1.1
#54	—	Andrea M. Ghez	United States	Scientists	61.1	15.8
#55	—	Sacagawea	United States	Scientists	60.9	5.6
#56	—	Irving Langmuir	United States	Scientists	60.8	5.3
#57	—	Carl David Anderson	United States	Scientists	60.5	0.0
#58	—	John Muir	United States	Scientists	60.5	8.0
#59	—	Robert Fulton	United States	Scientists	60.3	3.8
#60	—	Saul Perlmutter	United States	Scientists	60.1	3.6
#61	—	Frances Arnold	United States	Scientists	60.0	1.5
#62	—	Donald A. Glaser	United States	Scientists	60.0	2.3
#63	—	Willis Carrier	United States	Scientists	59.9	22.2
#64	—	Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov	United States	Scientists	59.9	0.0
#65	—	John G. Trump	United States	Scientists	59.9	19.6
#66	—	Felix Bloch	United States	Scientists	59.9	0.0
#67	—	Meriwether Lewis	United States	Scientists	59.9	6.9
#68	—	Katherine Mack	United States	Scientists	59.7	0.0
#69	—	Christopher McCandless	United States	Scientists	59.7	0.8
#70	—	Steven Chu	United States	Scientists	59.7	0.0
#71	—	Victor Francis Hess	United States	Scientists	59.6	0.0
#72	—	Robert J. Lang	United States	Scientists	59.6	0.8
#73	—	Clinton Davisson	United States	Scientists	59.5	0.3
#74	—	Johnny Appleseed	United States	Scientists	59.5	10.0
#75	—	Frederick Reines	United States	Scientists	59.4	20.8
#76	—	Emilio Segrè	United States	Scientists	59.4	0.0
#77	—	Carol Greider	United States	Scientists	59.3	0.9
#78	—	Carolyn Bertozzi	United States	Scientists	59.2	5.8
#79	—	Tsung-Dao Lee	United States	Scientists	59.2	0.0
#80	—	John James Audubon	United States	Scientists	59.1	0.0
#81	—	Karl Barry Sharpless	United States	Scientists	59.1	5.2
#82	—	John Stith Pemberton	United States	Scientists	59.0	3.9
#83	—	Karen Silkwood	United States	Scientists	59.0	10.0
#84	—	Raymond Davis Jr.	United States	Scientists	58.9	25.0
#85	—	Harold Urey	United States	Scientists	58.9	0.8
#86	—	Percy Williams Bridgman	United States	Scientists	58.8	0.0
#87	—	Karen Wetterhahn	United States	Scientists	58.7	16.6
#88	—	Vera Rubin	United States	Scientists	58.7	0.5
#89	—	Igor Sikorsky	United States	Scientists	58.6	1.0
#90	—	William Luther Pierce	United States	Scientists	58.6	8.6
#91	—	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	United States	Scientists	58.5	0.0
#92	—	Walter Houser Brattain	United States	Scientists	58.5	0.0
#93	—	George Smoot	United States	Scientists	58.4	0.0
#94	—	Daniel Boone	United States	Scientists	58.4	0.0
#95	—	Ei-ichi Negishi	United States	Scientists	58.1	3.8
#96	—	John Howard Northrop	United States	Scientists	58.1	3.6
#97	—	Lynn Conway	United States	Scientists	58.0	25.0
#98	—	Sequoyah	United States	Scientists	58.0	12.4
#99	—	Edward Mills Purcell	United States	Scientists	58.0	0.0
#100	—	Clyde Tombaugh	United States	Scientists	57.9	0.0

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