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Top people for #Physics

Who actually defines Physics — ranked by public attention, not insider opinion. 373 tracked, ranked by the public attention they actually command — search demand, Wikipedia readership, news coverage, and social reach, refreshed daily.

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The people the world most associates with Physics right now, concentrated in United States, United Kingdom, Germany — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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373 tracked

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Albert Einstein Theoretical physicist, theory of relativity	Germany	Scientists	98.6	10.0
#2	—	Marie Curie Physicist & chemist, two-time Nobel laureate	—	Scientists	93.6	0.0
#3	—	Nikola Tesla	—	Scientists	89.8	0.0
#4	—	Niels Bohr	—	Academics	84.0	0.0
#5	—	Tim Berners-Lee	United Kingdom	Scientists	83.4	0.0
#6	—	Max Planck	Germany	Academics	83.4	0.0
#7	—	Michael Faraday	United Kingdom	Scientists	82.4	0.0
#8	—	Wilhelm Röntgen	Germany	Scientists	81.1	3.0
#9	—	Enrico Fermi	Italy	Scientists	80.8	0.0
#10	—	Erwin Schrödinger	Austria	Scientists	79.6	0.0
#11	—	Alexander Graham Bell	United States	Scientists	79.3	0.0
#12	—	James Clerk Maxwell	United Kingdom	Scientists	79.0	0.0
#13	—	Richard Feynman	United States	Scientists	78.9	0.0
#14	—	James Prescott Joule	United Kingdom	Scientists	77.5	15.0
#15	—	Guglielmo Marconi	Italy	Scientists	76.6	5.3
#16	—	Max Born	United Kingdom	Scientists	74.8	9.3
#17	—	André-Marie Ampère	France	Scientists	74.5	15.0
#18	—	J. Robert Oppenheimer	United States	Academics	73.7	0.0
#19	—	Andrei Sakharov	—	Scientists	73.1	15.0
#20	—	Pierre Curie	France	Scientists	72.8	0.0
#21	—	Irène Joliot-Curie	France	Scientists	72.5	16.1
#22	—	Henri Becquerel	France	Scientists	72.0	14.3
#23	—	Hendrik Lorentz	Netherlands	Scientists	71.9	2.4
#24	—	Alessandro Volta	Italy	Scientists	70.2	0.7
#25	—	J. J. Thomson	United Kingdom	Scientists	70.2	0.6
#26	—	Georg Ohm	Germany	Scientists	70.1	15.0
#27	—	C. V. Raman	India	Scientists	69.8	0.7
#28	—	Robert Boyle	—	Scientists	69.5	1.1
#29	—	William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	—	Scientists	69.4	15.0
#30	—	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb	France	Scientists	69.2	31.6
#31	—	Maria Goeppert Mayer	Germany	Scientists	69.0	25.8
#32	—	Pieter Zeeman	Netherlands	Scientists	68.8	16.1
#33	1	Lev Landau	—	Scientists	68.5	4.4
#34	1	John Dalton	United Kingdom	Scientists	68.5	0.0
#35	—	Amedeo Avogadro	Italy	Scientists	68.5	15.9
#36	—	Peter Higgs	United Kingdom	Scientists	68.4	27.7
#37	—	Wernher von Braun	—	Scientists	68.4	0.0
#38	—	Philipp Lenard	Germany	Scientists	68.4	8.4
#39	—	Heinrich Hertz	—	Scientists	68.2	0.1
#40	6	Ludwig Boltzmann	Austria	Scientists	68.0	14.4
#41	1	James Chadwick	United Kingdom	Academics	67.9	4.7
#42	1	John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh	United Kingdom	Scientists	67.8	10.0
#43	1	Gustav Kirchhoff	—	Scientists	67.5	15.2
#44	1	Karl Ferdinand Braun	Germany	Scientists	67.4	23.2
#45	1	Ernest Lawrence	United States	Scientists	67.4	10.0
#46	1	Robert Andrews Millikan	United States	Scientists	67.3	1.9
#47	—	Wilhelm Wien	Germany	Scientists	67.0	9.2
#48	—	Samuel Morse	United States	Scientists	67.0	2.4
#49	—	Gabriel Lippmann	France	Scientists	66.8	15.0
#50	—	Max von Laue	Germany	Scientists	66.7	16.7
#51	—	Albert A. Michelson	United States	Scientists	66.0	0.0
#52	—	Dennis Gabor	—	Scientists	65.5	16.6
#53	—	Hermann von Helmholtz	Germany	Scientists	65.4	15.8
#54	—	Otto Stern	Germany	Scientists	65.3	16.6
#55	—	Hideki Yukawa	Japan	Scientists	65.3	2.1
#56	—	Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit	—	Scientists	65.2	15.0
#57	—	Johannes Stark	Germany	Scientists	65.0	15.0
#58	—	Katherine Johnson	United States	Scientists	64.9	8.7
#59	—	Louis de Broglie	France	Scientists	64.9	0.0
#60	—	Johannes Diderik van der Waals	Netherlands	Scientists	64.8	0.3
#61	—	Hans Christian Ørsted	—	Scientists	64.8	0.2
#62	—	Theophrastus	—	Scientists	64.8	0.0
#63	—	Luis Walter Alvarez	United States	Scientists	64.8	17.4
#64	—	William Henry Bragg	United Kingdom	Scientists	64.6	0.0
#65	—	Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac	France	Scientists	64.6	15.0
#66	—	John Bardeen	United States	Scientists	64.1	0.0
#67	—	Hans Bethe	France	Scientists	64.0	0.0
#68	—	Thomas Kuhn	United States	Scientists	63.8	10.6
#69	—	Emanuel Swedenborg	Sweden	Scientists	63.7	1.3
#70	—	Heike Kamerlingh Onnes	Netherlands	Scientists	63.6	1.1
#71	—	Léon Foucault	France	Scientists	63.3	15.2
#72	—	Ernst Mach	—	Scientists	63.3	0.0
#73	—	Jean Baptiste Perrin	France	Scientists	62.9	1.9
#74	—	Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	France	Scientists	62.9	0.0
#75	—	Edward Teller	—	Academics	62.8	0.6
#76	—	Alfred Wegener	Germany	Academics	62.4	0.0
#77	1	Shin'ichirō Tomonaga	Japan	Academics	62.0	4.9
#78	1	Mileva Marić	—	Scientists	62.0	15.0
#79	—	Rosalyn Sussman Yalow	United States	Scientists	62.0	1.5
#80	—	Luigi Galvani	Italy	Scientists	62.0	2.7
#81	—	Arthur Compton	United States	Scientists	62.0	0.0
#82	—	Charles Édouard Guillaume	Switzerland	Scientists	61.9	1.9
#83	—	Georg Christoph Lichtenberg	Germany	Scientists	61.8	2.1
#84	—	Gustav Ludwig Hertz	—	Scientists	61.7	0.0
#85	—	Edward Victor Appleton	United Kingdom	Scientists	61.7	2.1
#86	—	James Franck	United States	Scientists	61.6	0.0
#87	—	Joseph von Fraunhofer	Germany	Scientists	61.6	25.0
#88	—	Isidor Isaac Rabi	United States	Scientists	61.5	0.0
#89	—	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson	United Kingdom	Scientists	61.5	0.0
#90	—	Charles H. Townes	United States	Scientists	61.2	1.1
#91	—	Rudolf Mössbauer	Germany	Scientists	61.0	9.7
#92	—	Irving Langmuir	United States	Scientists	60.8	5.3
#93	—	Carl David Anderson	United States	Scientists	60.5	0.0
#94	—	Frederick Soddy	United Kingdom	Scientists	60.5	0.8
#95	—	Hannes Alfvén	Sweden	Scientists	60.2	0.0
#96	—	Gustaf Dalén	Sweden	Scientists	60.2	0.0
#97	—	Hermann Minkowski	—	Scientists	60.1	0.8
#98	—	François Englert	—	Scientists	60.1	3.3
#99	—	Donald A. Glaser	United States	Scientists	60.0	2.3
#100	—	Louis Néel	France	Scientists	60.0	8.3