The Most Famous
Physicists from Iraq
Trending Physicists from Iraq This Week
The top 10 Physicists from Iraq trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1
Ibn al-Haytham
965 - 1039
Trending in Arabic (#210) Wikipedia (321 views, on Apr 1).
This page contains a list of the greatest Iraqi Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 2 of which were born in Iraq. This makes Iraq the birth place of the 37th most number of Physicists behind New Zealand and Bangladesh.
Top 2 Iraqi Physicists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iraqi Physicists of all time. This list of famous Iraqi Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Ibn al-Haytham
965 - 1039
HPI 82.4289 langsIbn al-Haytham is most famous for his contributions to the field of optics. He is credited with discovering the principle of the pinhole...Read moreShow less
Ibn al-Haytham is most famous for his contributions to the field of optics. He is credited with discovering the principle of the pinhole camera, which is still used in photography today. He also contributed to the fields of geometry and trigonometry.
- #2
Jim Al-Khalili
b. 1962
HPI 44.9318 langsBritish theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster
