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Top 100 Scientists in United States

The most publicly visible scientists in United States.

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Top scientists in United States on Fame.am — 134 ranked, top: Elon Musk.

Country: 🇺🇸 United States
Category: Scientists
Total ranked: 134
Top person: Elon Musk

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Elon Musk CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, X. Founder of Neuralink, xAI	United States	Founders	99.0	12.9
#2	new	J. Robert Oppenheimer Acting	United States	Scientists	72.3	5.1
#3	new	Thomas Edison Lighting	United States	Scientists	57.0	1.1
#4	new	Carl Sagan	United States	Scientists	54.3	10.0
#5	new	Henry Ford	United States	Scientists	53.9	10.4
#6	new	Richard Feynman	United States	Scientists	53.1	4.0
#7	new	John Forbes Nash Jr.	United States	Scientists	52.5	13.0
#8	new	Jimmy Wales	United States	Scientists	47.3	12.3
#9	new	Neil deGrasse Tyson	United States	Scientists	45.3	1.0
#10	new	Rachel Carson	United States	Scientists	42.3	9.6
#11	new	Steve Wozniak	United States	Scientists	41.1	0.0
#12	new	Katherine Johnson	United States	Scientists	40.9	0.0
#13	new	John Stith Pemberton	United States	Scientists	40.2	16.0
#14	new	Dian Fossey	United States	Scientists	40.1	0.0
#15	new	John McCarthy	United States	Scientists	38.3	3.9
#16	new	Alexander Graham Bell	United States	Scientists	36.8	0.0
#17	new	Samuel Morse	United States	Scientists	36.8	5.3
#18	new	Norbert Wiener	United States	Scientists	33.8	3.6
#19	new	Claude Shannon	United States	Scientists	33.8	0.0
#20	new	Kurt Gödel	United States	Scientists	30.7	0.0
#21	new	George Washington Carver	United States	Scientists	30.6	0.0
#22	new	Grace Hopper	United States	Scientists	28.5	0.0
#23	new	Jim Simons	United States	Scientists	27.5	0.0
#24	new	Edwin Hubble	United States	Scientists	26.9	1.4
#25	new	Richard Stallman	United States	Scientists	26.8	0.0
#26	new	Linus Pauling	United States	Scientists	26.5	0.0
#27	new	James Watson	United States	Scientists	26.0	0.0
#28	new	Wolfgang Pauli	United States	Scientists	25.3	1.3
#29	new	Stanislaw Ulam	United States	Scientists	24.2	1.4
#30	new	Albert A. Michelson	United States	Scientists	20.2	4.9
#31	new	Thomas Midgley Jr.	United States	Scientists	19.6	0.0
#32	new	Charles Sanders Peirce	United States	Scientists	19.1	0.0
#33	new	Ernest Lawrence	United States	Scientists	18.8	0.5
#34	new	Rosalyn Sussman Yalow	United States	Scientists	17.7	19.5
#35	new	Robert Andrews Millikan	United States	Scientists	17.2	3.5
#36	new	Antonio Meucci	United States	Scientists	16.6	0.0
#37	new	John Bardeen	United States	Scientists	15.7	0.0
#38	new	Luis Walter Alvarez	United States	Scientists	14.4	0.0
#39	new	Eli Whitney	United States	Scientists	14.4	0.0
#40	new	Barbara McClintock	United States	Scientists	13.5	0.4
#41	new	Samuel Colt	United States	Scientists	13.3	0.0
#42	new	George Westinghouse	United States	Scientists	12.7	0.2
#43	new	Robert Fulton	United States	Scientists	12.4	0.0
#44	new	Hiram Maxim	United States	Scientists	12.1	1.4
#45	new	Carl David Anderson	United States	Scientists	11.3	3.7
#46	new	Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.	United States	Scientists	10.5	14.2
#47	new	Glenn T. Seaborg	United States	Scientists	10.2	0.0
#48	new	Douglas Engelbart	United States	Scientists	10.2	0.0
#49	new	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	United States	Scientists	9.9	0.0
#50	new	Josiah Willard Gibbs	United States	Scientists	9.4	0.0
#51	new	Jerome Isaac Friedman	United States	Scientists	9.3	3.8
#52	new	Clyde Tombaugh	United States	Scientists	9.2	0.0
#53	new	Clinton Davisson	United States	Scientists	9.0	9.9
#54	new	Barry Barish	United States	Scientists	8.8	7.0
#55	new	Isidor Isaac Rabi	United States	Scientists	8.7	0.0
#56	new	George Smoot	United States	Scientists	8.7	0.6
#57	new	Gertrude B. Elion	United States	Scientists	8.7	0.4
#58	new	William Lipscomb	United States	Scientists	8.0	14.1
#59	new	Thomas Hunt Morgan	United States	Scientists	7.7	0.0
#60	new	Burton Richter	United States	Scientists	7.6	7.1
#61	new	Samuel Pierpont Langley	United States	Scientists	7.5	2.0
#62	new	Gilbert N. Lewis	United States	Scientists	7.0	0.0
#63	new	Sheldon Lee Glashow	United States	Scientists	7.0	0.9
#64	new	Felix Bloch	United States	Scientists	6.6	0.0
#65	new	M. Stanley Whittingham	United States	Scientists	6.5	4.1
#66	new	Emilio Segrè	United States	Scientists	6.4	0.9
#67	new	Herman Hollerith	United States	Scientists	6.3	0.0
#68	new	Bob Kahn	United States	Scientists	6.3	0.9
#69	new	George E. Smith	United States	Scientists	6.2	8.6
#70	new	Philip Warren Anderson	United States	Scientists	6.1	1.0
#71	new	Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.	United States	Scientists	6.1	6.5
#72	new	Arthur Leonard Schawlow	United States	Scientists	6.0	2.6
#73	new	Wilfrid Voynich	United States	Scientists	5.6	0.7
#74	new	Robert Woodrow Wilson	United States	Scientists	5.0	0.0
#75	new	Irving Langmuir	United States	Scientists	5.0	0.0
#76	new	Charles Francis Richter	United States	Scientists	5.0	0.0
#77	new	Lee de Forest	United States	Scientists	5.0	0.2
#78	new	Raymond Davis Jr.	United States	Scientists	5.0	6.8
#79	new	Arthur Compton	United States	Scientists	5.0	0.0
#80	new	George Smith	United States	Scientists	5.0	5.1
#81	new	Walter Houser Brattain	United States	Scientists	5.0	0.0
#82	new	Charles H. Townes	United States	Scientists	5.0	0.0
#83	new	F. Sherwood Rowland	United States	Scientists	5.0	3.1
#84	new	James B. Sumner	United States	Scientists	5.0	10.9
#85	new	Harold Urey	United States	Scientists	4.9	0.0
#86	new	John Howard Northrop	United States	Scientists	4.9	26.9
#87	new	Joseph Henry	United States	Scientists	4.9	0.2
#88	new	Polykarp Kusch	United States	Scientists	4.9	5.1
#89	new	Leon Cooper	United States	Scientists	4.9	0.2
#90	new	Martin Lewis Perl	United States	Scientists	4.9	2.7
#91	new	William Giauque	United States	Scientists	4.9	12.7
#92	new	Allan MacLeod Cormack	United States	Scientists	4.9	2.3
#93	new	Wendell Meredith Stanley	United States	Scientists	4.9	3.2
#94	new	Paul Berg	United States	Scientists	4.9	0.0
#95	new	Robert Burns Woodward	United States	Scientists	4.9	0.0
#96	new	Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.	United States	Scientists	4.9	7.3
#97	new	James Franck	United States	Scientists	4.9	0.0
#98	new	Jerome Karle	United States	Scientists	4.9	6.5
#99	new	Ben Roy Mottelson	United States	Scientists	4.9	5.5
#100	new	William Howard Stein	United States	Scientists	4.9	15.0

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