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230 answers are accepted for “Name a Nobel laureate in Physics”. Francis Halzen is the rarest Nobel laureate in Physics in this ranking, with 2,133 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). Charles-Édouard Guillaume is the second-rarest with 2,296 monthly Wikipedia views, 1.08× the figure for Francis Halzen. Albert Einstein is the most common Nobel laureate in Physics in this ranking, with 4,190,741 monthly Wikipedia views, 1,965× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 230 answers: 18,155,803. Francis Halzen is under 0.1% of that total. 46 answers are Epic or Legendary: Francis Halzen (Legendary), Charles-Édouard Guillaume (Legendary), Horst Ludwig Störmer (Legendary), and 43 more.
Quick answer Rarest
Francis Halzen
Legendary
2,133 monthly Wikipedia views
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Rarity 1.000
Most common
Albert Einstein
Common
4,190,741 monthly Wikipedia views
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Rarity 0.000
Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).
Ranked answers 230 answers to “Name a Nobel laureate in Physics”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this
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Rank Answer Tier Rarity Monthly Wikipedia views 1 Francis Halzen on Wikipedia Legendary 1.000 2,133 2 Charles-Édouard Guillaume on Wikipedia Legendary 0.996 2,296 3 Horst Ludwig Störmer on Wikipedia Legendary 0.991 3,363 4 Robert Coleman Richardson on Wikipedia Legendary 0.987 3,394 5 James Rainwater on Wikipedia Legendary 0.983 4,016 6 Clifford Shull on Wikipedia Legendary 0.978 4,060 7 Hans Georg Dehmelt on Wikipedia Legendary 0.974 4,076 8 Ben Roy Mottelson on Wikipedia Legendary 0.969 4,232 9 K. Alex Müller on Wikipedia Legendary 0.965 4,372 10 Douglas Osheroff on Wikipedia Legendary 0.961 4,413 11 Donald Glaser on Wikipedia Legendary 0.956 4,446 12 Bertram Brockhouse on Wikipedia Legendary 0.952 4,550 13 Owen Richardson on Wikipedia Legendary 0.948 4,750 14 Russell Alan Hulse on Wikipedia Legendary 0.943 4,757 15 Heinrich Rohrer on Wikipedia Legendary 0.939 4,918 16 Kai Siegbahn on Wikipedia Legendary 0.934 4,995 17 J. Hans D. Jensen on Wikipedia Legendary 0.930 5,036 18 Melvin Schwartz on Wikipedia Epic 0.926 5,229 19 David Lee on Wikipedia Epic 0.921 5,291 20 Charles Barkla on Wikipedia Epic 0.917 5,427 21 Georg Bednorz on Wikipedia Epic 0.913 5,431 22 Martin Lewis Perl on Wikipedia Epic 0.908 5,499 23 Alfred Kastler on Wikipedia Epic 0.904 5,501 24 Manne Siegbahn on Wikipedia Epic 0.900 5,666 25 Louis Néel on Wikipedia Epic 0.895 5,711 26 Norman Ramsey Jr. on Wikipedia Epic 0.891 5,776 27 Victor Hess on Wikipedia Epic 0.886 5,922 28 James Cronin on Wikipedia Epic 0.882 5,945 29 Albert Fert on Wikipedia Epic 0.878 6,040 30 Willard Boyle on Wikipedia Epic 0.873 6,077 31 Val Logsdon Fitch on Wikipedia Epic 0.869 6,131 32 Simon van der Meer on Wikipedia Epic 0.865 6,155 33 Polykarp Kusch on Wikipedia Epic 0.860 6,260 34 Ilya Frank on Wikipedia Epic 0.856 6,383 35 Hugh David Politzer on Wikipedia Epic 0.852 6,494 36 Riccardo Giacconi on Wikipedia Epic 0.847 6,506 37 Gerd Binnig on Wikipedia Epic 0.843 6,634 38 Nikolay Basov on Wikipedia Epic 0.838 6,663 39 Makoto Kobayashi on Wikipedia Epic 0.834 6,682 40 Richard E. Taylor on Wikipedia Epic 0.830 6,882 41 Peter Grünberg on Wikipedia Epic 0.825 6,965 42 Masatoshi Koshiba on Wikipedia Epic 0.821 7,064 43 Owen Chamberlain on Wikipedia Epic 0.817 7,139 44 Herbert Kroemer on Wikipedia Epic 0.810 7,157 45 Rudolf Mössbauer on Wikipedia Epic 0.810 7,157 46 George E. Smith on Wikipedia Epic 0.803 7,169 47 David Thouless on Wikipedia Rare 0.799 7,186 48 Toshihide Maskawa on Wikipedia Rare 0.795 7,193 49 Martinus J. G. Veltman on Wikipedia Rare 0.790 7,231 50 Nicolaas Bloembergen on Wikipedia Rare 0.786 7,320 51 Nevill Mott on Wikipedia Rare 0.782 7,431 52 C. T. R. Wilson on Wikipedia Rare 0.777 7,481 53 C. F. Powell on Wikipedia Rare 0.773 7,505 54 John L. Hall on Wikipedia Rare 0.769 7,528 55 Theodor W. Hänsch on Wikipedia Rare 0.764 7,674 56 Clinton Davisson on Wikipedia Rare 0.760 7,833 57 Daniel C. Tsui on Wikipedia Rare 0.755 7,870 58 Arthur Leonard Schawlow on Wikipedia Rare 0.751 8,287 59 Martin Ryle on Wikipedia Rare 0.747 8,381 60 Klaus Hasselmann on Wikipedia Rare 0.742 8,521 61 Burton Richter on Wikipedia Rare 0.738 8,603 62 Alexander Prokhorov on Wikipedia Rare 0.734 8,655 63 Alexei Abrikosov on Wikipedia Rare 0.729 8,922 64 Henry Way Kendall on Wikipedia Rare 0.725 8,996 65 Gérard Mourou on Wikipedia Rare 0.721 9,008 66 William Alfred Fowler on Wikipedia Rare 0.716 9,155 67 Gustaf Dalén on Wikipedia Rare 0.712 9,574 68 Raymond Davis Jr. on Wikipedia Rare 0.707 9,654 69 Jerome Isaac Friedman on Wikipedia Rare 0.703 9,755 70 Michel Mayor on Wikipedia Rare 0.699 9,875 71 Takaaki Kajita on Wikipedia Rare 0.694 9,936 72 Jean Perrin on Wikipedia Rare 0.690 10,038 73 Willis Lamb on Wikipedia Rare 0.686 10,162 74 Klaus von Klitzing on Wikipedia Rare 0.681 10,182 75 Arthur B. McDonald on Wikipedia Rare 0.677 10,194 76 Pierre Agostini on Wikipedia Rare 0.672 10,246 77 Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. on Wikipedia Rare 0.668 10,346 78 Georges Charpak on Wikipedia Rare 0.664 10,361 79 J. Michael Kosterlitz on Wikipedia Rare 0.659 10,409 80 Frederick Reines on Wikipedia Rare 0.655 10,639 81 Frits Zernike on Wikipedia Rare 0.651 10,674 82 David J. Wineland on Wikipedia Rare 0.646 10,785 83 K. Ferdinand Braun on Wikipedia Rare 0.642 10,813 84 Edward Victor Appleton on Wikipedia Rare 0.638 10,978 85 John Hasbrouck Van Vleck on Wikipedia Rare 0.633 11,375 86 Gustav Ludwig Hertz on Wikipedia Rare 0.629 11,379 87 William Daniel Phillips on Wikipedia Rare 0.624 11,701 88 Wolfgang Paul on Wikipedia Rare 0.620 11,762 89 John Robert Schrieffer on Wikipedia Rare 0.616 11,900 90 Hiroshi Amano on Wikipedia Rare 0.611 12,162 91 Duncan Haldane on Wikipedia Rare 0.607 12,256 92 Robert B. Laughlin on Wikipedia Rare 0.603 12,606 93 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.598 12,704 94 Ernst Ruska on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.594 12,761 95 Zhores Alferov on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.590 12,776 96 Jack Steinberger on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.585 12,928 97 Wilhelm Wien on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.581 13,451 98 Percy Williams Bridgman on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.576 13,471 99 Carlo Rubbia on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.572 13,648 100 Isamu Akasaki on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.568 14,135 101 Leon Cooper on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.563 14,437 102 Didier Queloz on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.559 14,674 103 Serge Haroche on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.555 14,751 104 Arthur Ashkin on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.550 14,772 105 Syukuro Manabe on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.546 14,803 106 Pieter Zeeman on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.541 14,838 107 John C. Mather on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.537 14,841 108 Edward Mills Purcell on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.533 15,036 109 Jim Peebles on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.528 15,049 110 Walther Bothe on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.524 15,074 111 Anthony Leggett on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.520 15,172 112 Wolfgang Ketterle on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.515 15,368 113 Roy J. Glauber on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.511 15,518 114 Hannes Alfvén on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.507 15,779 115 Reinhard Genzel on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.502 15,803 116 Carl Wieman on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.498 15,859 117 Eric Allin Cornell on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.493 16,539 118 Johannes Stark on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.489 16,703 119 Vitaly Ginzburg on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.485 17,005 120 Igor Tamm on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.480 17,028 121 Carl David Anderson on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.476 17,311 122 Ivar Giaever on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.472 17,352 123 Barry Barish on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.467 17,517 124 Gabriel Lippmann on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.463 18,008 125 Ernest Walton on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.459 18,158 126 Otto Stern on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.454 18,191 127 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.450 18,465 128 Philip W. Anderson on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.445 18,512 129 Samuel C. C. Ting on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.441 18,667 130 Robert Hofstadter on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.437 18,872 131 Leon M. Lederman on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.432 19,077 132 Kenneth G. Wilson on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.428 19,819 133 Arno Allan Penzias on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.424 20,143 134 Emilio Segrè on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.419 20,421 135 Antony Hewish on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.415 20,492 136 Walter Brattain on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.410 20,661 137 Brian Schmidt on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.406 20,762 138 Leo Esaki on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.402 20,976 139 Yoichiro Nambu on Wikipedia Familiar 0.397 21,334 140 Charles H. Townes on Wikipedia Familiar 0.393 21,413 141 Ferenc Krausz on Wikipedia Familiar 0.389 21,565 142 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes on Wikipedia Familiar 0.384 22,054 143 Adam Riess on Wikipedia Familiar 0.380 22,287 144 George Paget Thomson on Wikipedia Familiar 0.376 22,417 145 James Franck on Wikipedia Familiar 0.371 22,518 146 John Cockcroft on Wikipedia Familiar 0.367 23,012 147 Pavel Cherenkov on Wikipedia Familiar 0.362 23,240 148 Pyotr Kapitsa on Wikipedia Familiar 0.358 23,780 149 Anne L'Huillier on Wikipedia Familiar 0.354 24,098 150 Robert Woodrow Wilson on Wikipedia Familiar 0.349 24,377 151 Rainer Weiss on Wikipedia Familiar 0.345 24,537 152 Max von Laue on Wikipedia Familiar 0.341 24,746 153 Saul Perlmutter on Wikipedia Familiar 0.336 24,762 154 Johannes Diderik van der Waals on Wikipedia Familiar 0.332 25,462 155 William Henry Bragg on Wikipedia Familiar 0.328 25,658 156 Dennis Gabor on Wikipedia Familiar 0.323 26,164 157 Sheldon Glashow on Wikipedia Familiar 0.319 26,333 158 John Clauser on Wikipedia Familiar 0.314 26,352 159 François Englert on Wikipedia Familiar 0.310 26,633 160 Anton Zeilinger on Wikipedia Familiar 0.306 26,734 161 Giorgio Parisi on Wikipedia Familiar 0.301 27,011 162 Shin'ichirō Tomonaga on Wikipedia Familiar 0.297 27,250 163 John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh on Wikipedia Familiar 0.293 27,939 164 Andrea M. Ghez on Wikipedia Familiar 0.288 28,071 165 Felix Bloch on Wikipedia Familiar 0.284 28,556 166 Konstantin Novoselov on Wikipedia Familiar 0.279 28,818 167 Alain Aspect on Wikipedia Familiar 0.275 29,271 168 Hideki Yukawa on Wikipedia Familiar 0.271 30,607 169 Arthur Compton on Wikipedia Familiar 0.266 34,025 170 Lawrence Bragg on Wikipedia Familiar 0.262 34,535 171 Brian Josephson on Wikipedia Familiar 0.258 35,401 172 Robert Millikan on Wikipedia Familiar 0.253 35,602 173 Charles K. Kao on Wikipedia Familiar 0.249 35,898 174 Philipp Lenard on Wikipedia Familiar 0.245 35,997 175 Donna Strickland on Wikipedia Familiar 0.240 36,454 176 Frank Wilczek on Wikipedia Familiar 0.236 39,816 177 Aage Bohr on Wikipedia Familiar 0.231 42,283 178 Michel Devoret on Wikipedia Familiar 0.227 43,879 179 Gerard 't Hooft on Wikipedia Familiar 0.223 44,691 180 Tsung-Dao Lee on Wikipedia Familiar 0.218 44,746 181 Albert A. Michelson on Wikipedia Familiar 0.214 44,876 182 Jack Kilby on Wikipedia Familiar 0.210 46,500 183 George Smoot on Wikipedia Familiar 0.205 47,452 184 Maria Goeppert Mayer on Wikipedia Familiar 0.201 48,857 185 Isidor Rabi on Wikipedia Common 0.197 49,657 186 Julian Schwinger on Wikipedia Common 0.192 51,091 187 John Hopfield on Wikipedia Common 0.188 53,659 188 John Clarke on Wikipedia Common 0.183 54,404 189 David Gross on Wikipedia Common 0.179 54,754 190 Andre Geim on Wikipedia Common 0.175 55,124 191 Patrick Blackett on Wikipedia Common 0.170 56,352 192 Steven Chu on Wikipedia Common 0.166 57,612 193 Henri Becquerel on Wikipedia Common 0.162 59,929 194 Steven Weinberg on Wikipedia Common 0.157 63,416 195 Hendrik Lorentz on Wikipedia Common 0.153 68,236 196 James Chadwick on Wikipedia Common 0.148 71,701 197 Yang Chen-Ning on Wikipedia Common 0.144 73,743 198 John M. Martinis on Wikipedia Common 0.140 77,315 199 Louis de Broglie on Wikipedia Common 0.135 79,495 200 Eugene Wigner on Wikipedia Common 0.131 85,361 201 Peter Higgs on Wikipedia Common 0.127 92,050 202 Murray Gell-Mann on Wikipedia Common 0.122 97,411 203 Luis Walter Alvarez on Wikipedia Common 0.118 102,733 204 Hans Bethe on Wikipedia Common 0.114 106,514 205 John Bardeen on Wikipedia Common 0.109 109,013 206 Shuji Nakamura on Wikipedia Common 0.105 112,156 207 Lev Landau on Wikipedia Common 0.100 119,410 208 Wolfgang Pauli on Wikipedia Common 0.096 127,428 209 Abdus Salam on Wikipedia Common 0.092 143,660 210 Ernest Lawrence on Wikipedia Common 0.087 150,161 211 J. J. Thomson on Wikipedia Common 0.083 152,027 212 William Shockley on Wikipedia Common 0.079 156,128 213 Wilhelm Röntgen on Wikipedia Common 0.074 184,308 214 Kip Thorne on Wikipedia Common 0.070 198,359 215 Max Born on Wikipedia Common 0.066 242,620 216 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar on Wikipedia Common 0.061 251,052 217 Guglielmo Marconi on Wikipedia Common 0.057 259,936 218 Pierre Curie on Wikipedia Common 0.052 265,210 219 Max Planck on Wikipedia Common 0.048 300,491 220 Paul Dirac on Wikipedia Common 0.044 336,157 221 Enrico Fermi on Wikipedia Common 0.039 360,222 222 Roger Penrose on Wikipedia Common 0.035 374,445 223 C. V. Raman on Wikipedia Common 0.031 407,503 224 Erwin Schrödinger on Wikipedia Common 0.026 411,392 225 Niels Bohr on Wikipedia Common 0.022 477,620 226 Werner Heisenberg on Wikipedia Common 0.017 667,384 227 Geoffrey Hinton on Wikipedia Common 0.013 744,287 228 Richard Feynman on Wikipedia Common 0.009 1,213,069 229 Marie Curie on Wikipedia Common 0.004 1,932,824 230 Albert Einstein on Wikipedia Common 0.000 4,190,741
FAQ What is the rarest Nobel laureate in Physics? Francis Halzen is the rarest Nobel laureate in Physics in this ranking, with 2,133 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).
How many Nobel laureate in Physics are there? There are 230 Nobel laureate in Physics in this ranking, from Francis Halzen (rarest) to Albert Einstein (most common).
What is the most common Nobel laureate in Physics? Albert Einstein is the most common Nobel laureate in Physics in this ranking, with 4,190,741 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).
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Sources Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.