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Top Scientists in United States for #20th Century

The most publicly visible scientists in United States associated with 20th Century.

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Top Scientists in United States for #20th Century on Fame.am. 98 profiles ranked.

Country: United States
Category: Scientists
Tag: #20th Century
Total profiles: 98
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	Richard Feynman	United States	Scientists	53.1	4.0
#4	new	John Forbes Nash Jr.	United States	Scientists	52.5	13.0
#5	new	Jimmy Wales	United States	Scientists	47.3	12.3
#6	new	Rachel Carson	United States	Scientists	42.3	9.6
#7	new	Katherine Johnson	United States	Scientists	40.9	0.0
#8	new	Dian Fossey	United States	Scientists	40.1	0.0
#9	new	John McCarthy	United States	Scientists	38.3	3.9
#10	new	Norbert Wiener	United States	Scientists	33.8	3.6
#11	new	Claude Shannon	United States	Scientists	33.8	0.0
#12	new	Kurt Gödel	United States	Scientists	30.7	0.0
#13	new	Jim Simons	United States	Scientists	27.5	0.0
#14	new	Edwin Hubble	United States	Scientists	26.9	1.4
#15	new	Richard Stallman	United States	Scientists	26.8	0.0
#16	new	Linus Pauling	United States	Scientists	26.5	0.0
#17	new	Wolfgang Pauli	United States	Scientists	25.3	1.3
#18	new	Thomas Midgley Jr.	United States	Scientists	19.6	0.0
#19	new	Ernest Lawrence	United States	Scientists	18.8	0.5
#20	new	Rosalyn Sussman Yalow	United States	Scientists	17.7	19.5
#21	new	John Bardeen	United States	Scientists	15.7	0.0
#22	new	Luis Walter Alvarez	United States	Scientists	14.4	0.0
#23	new	Barbara McClintock	United States	Scientists	13.5	0.4
#24	new	Carl David Anderson	United States	Scientists	11.3	3.7
#25	new	Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.	United States	Scientists	10.5	14.2
#26	new	Glenn T. Seaborg	United States	Scientists	10.2	0.0
#27	new	Douglas Engelbart	United States	Scientists	10.2	0.0
#28	new	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	United States	Scientists	9.9	0.0
#29	new	Jerome Isaac Friedman	United States	Scientists	9.3	3.8
#30	new	Clyde Tombaugh	United States	Scientists	9.2	0.0
#31	new	Clinton Davisson	United States	Scientists	9.0	9.9
#32	new	Barry Barish	United States	Scientists	8.8	7.0
#33	new	Isidor Isaac Rabi	United States	Scientists	8.7	0.0
#34	new	George Smoot	United States	Scientists	8.7	0.6
#35	new	Gertrude B. Elion	United States	Scientists	8.7	0.4
#36	new	William Lipscomb	United States	Scientists	8.0	14.1
#37	new	Burton Richter	United States	Scientists	7.6	7.1
#38	new	Sheldon Lee Glashow	United States	Scientists	7.0	0.9
#39	new	Felix Bloch	United States	Scientists	6.6	0.0
#40	new	M. Stanley Whittingham	United States	Scientists	6.5	4.1
#41	new	Emilio Segrè	United States	Scientists	6.4	0.9
#42	new	Bob Kahn	United States	Scientists	6.3	0.9
#43	new	George E. Smith	United States	Scientists	6.2	8.6
#44	new	Philip Warren Anderson	United States	Scientists	6.1	1.0
#45	new	Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.	United States	Scientists	6.1	6.5
#46	new	Arthur Leonard Schawlow	United States	Scientists	6.0	2.6
#47	new	Robert Woodrow Wilson	United States	Scientists	5.0	0.0
#48	new	Irving Langmuir	United States	Scientists	5.0	0.0
#49	new	Raymond Davis Jr.	United States	Scientists	5.0	6.8
#50	new	Charles Francis Richter	United States	Scientists	5.0	0.0
#51	new	Arthur Compton	United States	Scientists	5.0	0.0
#52	new	George Smith	United States	Scientists	5.0	5.1
#53	new	Walter Houser Brattain	United States	Scientists	5.0	0.0
#54	new	James B. Sumner	United States	Scientists	5.0	10.9
#55	new	F. Sherwood Rowland	United States	Scientists	5.0	3.1
#56	new	Charles H. Townes	United States	Scientists	5.0	0.0
#57	new	John Howard Northrop	United States	Scientists	4.9	26.9
#58	new	Polykarp Kusch	United States	Scientists	4.9	5.1
#59	new	Martin Lewis Perl	United States	Scientists	4.9	2.7
#60	new	Leon Cooper	United States	Scientists	4.9	0.2
#61	new	William Giauque	United States	Scientists	4.9	12.7
#62	new	Wendell Meredith Stanley	United States	Scientists	4.9	3.2
#63	new	Allan MacLeod Cormack	United States	Scientists	4.9	2.3
#64	new	Paul Berg	United States	Scientists	4.9	0.0
#65	new	Robert Burns Woodward	United States	Scientists	4.9	0.0
#66	new	Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.	United States	Scientists	4.9	7.3
#67	new	James Franck	United States	Scientists	4.9	0.0
#68	new	Jerome Karle	United States	Scientists	4.9	6.5
#69	new	Ben Roy Mottelson	United States	Scientists	4.9	5.5
#70	new	William Howard Stein	United States	Scientists	4.9	15.0
#71	new	Stanford Moore	United States	Scientists	4.8	9.6
#72	new	Percy Williams Bridgman	United States	Scientists	4.8	0.0
#73	new	Linda B. Buck	United States	Scientists	4.8	0.5
#74	new	Robert S. Mulliken	United States	Scientists	4.8	0.0
#75	new	Melvin Calvin	United States	Scientists	4.7	0.0
#76	new	Donald A. Glaser	United States	Scientists	4.7	0.0
#77	new	Roger D. Kornberg	United States	Scientists	4.7	1.2
#78	new	George Beadle	United States	Scientists	4.7	0.0
#79	new	Willis Lamb	United States	Scientists	4.7	0.0
#80	new	Victor Francis Hess	United States	Scientists	4.7	0.0
#81	new	Vincent du Vigneaud	United States	Scientists	4.7	1.7
#82	new	Owen Chamberlain	United States	Scientists	4.7	1.1
#83	new	Christian B. Anfinsen	United States	Scientists	4.6	0.1
#84	new	Val Logsdon Fitch	United States	Scientists	4.6	0.0
#85	new	Robert Coleman Richardson	United States	Scientists	4.6	1.8
#86	new	Max Theiler	United States	Scientists	4.6	0.0
#87	new	Edwin McMillan	United States	Scientists	4.6	0.0
#88	new	John Fenn	United States	Scientists	4.5	0.0
#89	new	Hugh David Politzer	United States	Scientists	4.5	0.0
#90	new	Paul Flory	United States	Scientists	4.5	0.0
#91	new	James Rainwater	United States	Scientists	4.5	0.9
#92	new	William E. Moerner	United States	Scientists	4.5	0.0
#93	new	Douglas Osheroff	United States	Scientists	4.4	0.0
#94	new	Edward Tatum	United States	Scientists	4.4	0.0
#95	new	Edward Adelbert Doisy	United States	Scientists	4.4	0.7
#96	new	Herbert A. Hauptman	United States	Scientists	4.4	0.0
#97	new	Clifford Shull	United States	Scientists	4.4	0.0
#98	new	Irwin Rose	United States	Scientists	4.4	0.0