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Top 100 Scientists tagged #Physics

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The most famous scientists associated with Physics 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	new	Albert Einstein Theoretical physicist, theory of relativity	Germany	Scientists	98.6	10.0
#2	new	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	—	Scientists	95.6	0.0
#3	new	Galileo Galilei	Italy	Scientists	94.1	0.0
#4	new	Thomas Edison	United States	Scientists	94.1	0.0
#5	new	Marie Curie Physicist & chemist, two-time Nobel laureate	—	Scientists	93.6	0.0
#6	new	Stephen Hawking	United Kingdom	Scientists	90.6	0.0
#7	new	Nikola Tesla	—	Scientists	89.8	0.0
#8	new	Nicolaus Copernicus	—	Scientists	89.1	0.0
#9	new	James Watt	United Kingdom	Scientists	83.6	10.0
#10	new	Tim Berners-Lee	United Kingdom	Scientists	83.4	0.0
#11	new	Dmitri Mendeleev	—	Scientists	82.8	0.0
#12	new	Ernest Rutherford	New Zealand	Scientists	82.5	1.4
#13	new	Michael Faraday	United Kingdom	Scientists	82.4	0.0
#14	new	Carl Sagan	United States	Scientists	82.1	0.0
#15	new	Wilhelm Röntgen	Germany	Scientists	81.1	3.0
#16	new	Enrico Fermi	Italy	Scientists	80.8	0.0
#17	new	Erwin Schrödinger	Austria	Scientists	79.6	0.0
#18	new	Alexander Graham Bell	United States	Scientists	79.3	0.0
#19	new	James Clerk Maxwell	United Kingdom	Scientists	79.0	0.0
#20	new	Richard Feynman	United States	Scientists	78.9	0.0
#21	new	James Prescott Joule	United Kingdom	Scientists	77.5	15.0
#22	new	Guglielmo Marconi	Italy	Scientists	76.6	5.3
#23	new	Max Born	United Kingdom	Scientists	74.8	9.3
#24	new	André-Marie Ampère	France	Scientists	74.5	15.0
#25	new	Andrei Sakharov	—	Scientists	73.1	15.0
#26	new	Pierre Curie	France	Scientists	72.8	0.0
#27	new	Irène Joliot-Curie	France	Scientists	72.5	16.1
#28	new	Arthur C. Clarke	United Kingdom	Scientists	72.5	0.4
#29	new	Antoine Lavoisier	France	Scientists	72.3	0.0
#30	new	Mikhail Lomonosov	—	Scientists	72.2	10.0
#31	new	Henri Becquerel	France	Scientists	72.0	14.3
#32	new	Hendrik Lorentz	Netherlands	Scientists	71.9	2.4
#33	new	Alessandro Volta	Italy	Scientists	70.2	0.7
#34	new	J. J. Thomson	United Kingdom	Scientists	70.2	0.6
#35	new	Svante Arrhenius	Sweden	Scientists	70.1	14.2
#36	new	Georg Ohm	Germany	Scientists	70.1	15.0
#37	new	Christiaan Huygens	Netherlands	Scientists	69.9	0.0
#38	new	C. V. Raman	India	Scientists	69.8	0.7
#39	new	Humphry Davy	United Kingdom	Scientists	69.5	10.4
#40	new	Robert Boyle	—	Scientists	69.5	1.1
#41	new	William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	—	Scientists	69.4	15.0
#42	new	Rosalind Franklin	United Kingdom	Scientists	69.2	0.0
#43	new	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb	France	Scientists	69.2	31.6
#44	new	James Watson	United States	Scientists	69.0	1.7
#45	new	Maria Goeppert Mayer	Germany	Scientists	69.0	25.8
#46	new	Pieter Zeeman	Netherlands	Scientists	68.8	16.1
#47	new	William Herschel	Germany	Scientists	68.7	0.0
#48	new	Linus Pauling	United States	Scientists	68.6	0.1
#49	new	Anders Celsius	Sweden	Scientists	68.5	7.9
#50	new	John Dalton	United Kingdom	Scientists	68.5	0.0
#51	new	Lev Landau	—	Scientists	68.5	4.4
#52	new	Amedeo Avogadro	Italy	Scientists	68.5	15.9
#53	new	Peter Higgs	United Kingdom	Scientists	68.4	27.7
#54	new	Wernher von Braun	—	Scientists	68.4	0.0
#55	new	Philipp Lenard	Germany	Scientists	68.4	8.4
#56	new	Heinrich Hertz	—	Scientists	68.2	0.1
#57	new	Ludwig Boltzmann	Austria	Scientists	68.0	14.4
#58	new	John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh	United Kingdom	Scientists	67.8	10.0
#59	new	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	Netherlands	Scientists	67.7	0.0
#60	new	Gustav Kirchhoff	—	Scientists	67.5	15.2
#61	new	Karl Ferdinand Braun	Germany	Scientists	67.4	23.2
#62	new	Ernest Lawrence	United States	Scientists	67.4	10.0
#63	new	Robert Andrews Millikan	United States	Scientists	67.3	1.9
#64	new	Wilhelm Wien	Germany	Scientists	67.0	9.2
#65	new	Samuel Morse	United States	Scientists	67.0	2.4
#66	new	Gabriel Lippmann	France	Scientists	66.8	15.0
#67	new	Max von Laue	Germany	Scientists	66.7	16.7
#68	new	Henry Cavendish	France	Scientists	66.7	14.5
#69	new	Albert A. Michelson	United States	Scientists	66.0	0.0
#70	new	Wilhelm Ostwald	Germany	Scientists	66.0	15.0
#71	new	Dorothy Hodgkin	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.5	0.0
#72	new	Dennis Gabor	—	Scientists	65.5	16.6
#73	new	Hermann von Helmholtz	Germany	Scientists	65.4	15.8
#74	new	Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff	Netherlands	Scientists	65.4	1.4
#75	new	Otto Stern	Germany	Scientists	65.3	16.6
#76	new	Hideki Yukawa	Japan	Scientists	65.3	2.1
#77	new	Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit	—	Scientists	65.2	15.0
#78	new	Johannes Stark	Germany	Scientists	65.0	15.0
#79	new	John Herschel	United Kingdom	Scientists	65.0	4.1
#80	new	Katherine Johnson	United States	Scientists	64.9	8.7
#81	new	Louis de Broglie	France	Scientists	64.9	0.0
#82	new	Johannes Diderik van der Waals	Netherlands	Scientists	64.8	0.3
#83	new	Hans Christian Ørsted	—	Scientists	64.8	0.2
#84	new	Theophrastus	—	Scientists	64.8	0.0
#85	new	Luis Walter Alvarez	United States	Scientists	64.8	17.4
#86	new	William Henry Bragg	United Kingdom	Scientists	64.6	0.0
#87	new	Francis Crick	United Kingdom	Scientists	64.6	0.0
#88	new	Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac	France	Scientists	64.6	15.0
#89	new	Otto Hahn	Germany	Scientists	64.5	0.0
#90	new	Fritz Haber	Germany	Scientists	64.5	0.0
#91	new	John Bardeen	United States	Scientists	64.1	0.0
#92	new	Hans Bethe	France	Scientists	64.0	0.0
#93	new	Thomas Kuhn	United States	Scientists	63.8	10.6
#94	new	Emanuel Swedenborg	Sweden	Scientists	63.7	1.3
#95	new	Heike Kamerlingh Onnes	Netherlands	Scientists	63.6	1.1
#96	new	Thomas Young	United Kingdom	Scientists	63.6	0.7
#97	new	Jack Kilby	United States	Scientists	63.4	15.0
#98	new	Walther Nernst	—	Scientists	63.4	5.3
#99	new	Léon Foucault	France	Scientists	63.3	15.2
#100	new	Ernst Mach	—	Scientists	63.3	0.0